All the Truck in the World (novel)

All the Truck in the World is a 1984 novel by author Brendan M. Leonard, and the fourth in a series of 17 novels about sniper Jack Truck.

Synopsis
Truck investigates a ritualistic series of murders of multiracial women and couples. This novel introduces The Confederate, a sadistic, racist, cannibal serial killer who's as gifted with a bayonet as Truck is with a sniper rifle.

History
Leonard credits the 1978 novel Falling Angel (later the basis for the film Angel Heart) as one of his primary inspirations for this installment; the splatterpunk-esque novel is considered to be one of the weaker entries in the series, despite the terrifying antagonist. It is the most graphically violent in the series.

In a brief scene midway through the novel, Truck bonds over folk and metal music with a ten-year-old boy, who he describes as "articulate and perceptive." Fans have suggested that this is the first appearance of Randolph "Ran" Berrigan, later a rock critic/paranormal investigator and protagonist of Leonard's Deep Tracks series.