The Delivery

Freelance courier Mercury Carter races against time and across New England to rescue a trafficking victim in this new thriller from the author of The Mailman.

Merc Carter is not your typical deliveryman. A former postal inspector, he specializes in moving sensitive or dangerous packages—of all sorts—from point A to B. And sometimes he needs his gun to do so.

Carter’s current mission leads him to Providence, Rhode Island, but his delivery is interrupted when he comes across a woman badly injured in a car wreck in the pouring rain. Then a man with a gun appears warning Carter away from the scene and Carter leaps into action, disarming the attacker and rescuing the crash victim.

Just as Carter thinks the danger has passed, he discovers a deeper mystery stemming from the crash, a deadly puzzle involving a memorable pair of grifters, a crooked ex-cop, stolen identities, human trafficking, and murder. And it appears that Carter’s next assignment will put him right in this conspiracy’s perilous center . . .

The follow-up to last year’s acclaimed hit, The Mailman, which launched the Mercury Carter series, The Delivery is a fast-paced, unpredictable thriller following a memorable protagonist whose resourcefulness is matched only by his quick wit and determination to never miss a delivery.

The Delivery starts strong and doesn’t let up until the last page, striking a keen balance between edge-of-your-seat action and careful character work. If Andrew Welsh-Huggins keeps this up, it won’t be long before Mercury Carter makes it into the pantheon of literary action heroes.”
―Rob Hart, USA Today bestselling author of the Assassins Anonymous series

Andrew Welsh-Huggins has done it again with THE DELIVERY—another frenetic, kinetic thriller starring his off-kilter and likeable protagonist Mercury Carter. Carter may be driving, but it’s Welsh-Huggins who never takes his foot off the gas.”
―James Byrne, author of The Gatekeeper and Chain Reaction

Head-knocking courier Mercury Carter gets tangled in overlapping criminal conspiracies in Welsh-Huggins’s solid sequel to The Mailman.”
―Publishers Weekly

With full-throttle pacing from start to finish, this will have Jack Reacher fans hoping Carter is back in action soon.”
―Publishers Weekly on The Mailman

Mercury Carter is a terrific addition to the solitary, quick thinking, resourceful contemporary knight in white.”
―Crimespree Magazine

Andrew Welsh-Huggins is the author of more than a dozen books, including the critically acclaimed Mercury Carter thriller series, the stand-alone crime novel The End of The Road, and the Shamus Award-nominated Andy Hayes private eye series. Andrew also edited the anthology Columbus Noir, and his short stories have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021, 2024, and 2025. His nonfiction title, No Winners Here Tonight, is the definitive history of the death penalty in Ohio.