Lucky Truck (novel)

Lucky Truck is a 1980 novel by author Brendan M. Leonard, and the second in a series of 17 novels about sniper Jack Truck.

Synopsis
Lucky Truck finds Jack still shaken from the events of Sniper Truck. Having escaped alive but forced to consider his actions as a professional killer, Jack becomes dangerously focused on the nature of fate and chance.

Differences between the novel and movie
Despite the fact that "lucky" refers more to Jack's attempt to come to terms with fate, Panther Books released  Lucky Truck with an image of playing cards on it, based on a short but key scene in which Jack reflects on his time as a successful card-counter in Vegas. The film Sniper Truck 2: Viva Las Vegas bears almost no resemblance to the book, but somehow the Vegas details from the book were converted into the story from the film. (One urban legend has producer Menahem Golan insisting the film be centered in Vegas based on the book jacket rather than reading the book itself.) Leonard was dissatisfied with the film completely diverged from his vision of the character, and did not return to script the sequel.