-- J. Gonzalez, a corrections officer in New Jersey, has published The Devil's Transfer, a horror thriller laced with slight dark humor, which follows two officers and the felon they are transporting after a routine job breaks down. The book is available now on Amazon as a Kindle edition and via Barnes & Noble.
The Devil's Transfer follows officers Jorge and Mark as a broken-down van, an unfamiliar gas station, and a tow pull their transfer into Boone Helm, an isolated town hiding a cult devoted to the devil. Carter, the felon the two officers are transporting, becomes the third man forced to survive alongside them once the town closes in. The 90-page novel is listed under Amazon's Mystery, Thriller and Suspense category and published on January 14, 2026.
Gonzalez brings a corrections officer's working knowledge of procedure and control to a story built around what happens when that control disappears. The book keeps its focus on the three men at its center rather than on a single visible villain, letting the town itself carry the threat through most of the story. Boone Helm's mayor is presented as welcoming on the surface, and the story withholds what the town actually worships until the reader has already felt something is wrong with the place.
That background shapes how the danger in the book is written. The threat in The Devil's Transfer builds through procedure and observation rather than through sudden violence, an approach that draws directly on the kind of attention a corrections job requires day to day.
The setup places Jorge and Mark, the two officers guarding Carter, on the same side of the same threat as the man they were transporting. The book's second half turns on what changes between the three once escape depends on all of them working together rather than on the two officers keeping Carter under guard. Old conflicts between the three resurface as the town narrows their options, and the story is built to close on its own rather than set up a sequel.
Early reader reviews on Amazon have pointed to the book's tension and pacing as what stays with them after finishing it.
The Devil's Transfer arrives as reader interest in horror and thriller titles typically rises heading into October, and it is available now on Amazon as a Kindle edition, as well as from Barnes & Noble. Gonzalez wrote the book around the procedural instincts his corrections work requires, applied instead to a town where nothing is what it presents itself to be.
About J. Gonzalez
J. Gonzalez is a corrections officer in New Jersey and the author of The Devil's Transfer, a 90-page thriller published in January 2026 and available now on Amazon in Kindle edition, listed under the platform's Mystery, Thriller and Suspense category. It is also available from Barnes & Noble. Gonzalez wrote and published the book independently, without a literary agent or a publishing house attached to the release.
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