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Blacktop Wasteland

by S. A. Cosby
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner

  • New York Times Notable Book
  • NPR's Best Books of the Year
  • BookPage's #1 Mystery and Suspense of the Year
  • Sun Sentinel's #1 Best Mystery of the Year
    "I loved Blacktop Wasteland...[A] fast-paced, bareknuckle thriller." -Stephen King
    "A roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm." -The New York Times Book Review
    "One of the year's strongest novels." -Sun Sentinel

    A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.
    Beauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there's no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast.
    He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear.
    Haunted by the ghost of who he used to be and the father who disappeared when he needed him most, Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland...or die trying.
    Like Ocean's Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime.

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    Publisher: Flatiron Books

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    • Release date: July 14, 2020

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    • ISBN: 9781250252678
    • Release date: July 14, 2020

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    • ISBN: 9781250252678
    • File size: 3635 KB
    • Release date: July 14, 2020
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    subjects

    Fiction African American Fiction Mystery Thriller

    Languages

    English

    Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner

  • New York Times Notable Book
  • NPR's Best Books of the Year
  • BookPage's #1 Mystery and Suspense of the Year
  • Sun Sentinel's #1 Best Mystery of the Year
    "I loved Blacktop Wasteland...[A] fast-paced, bareknuckle thriller." -Stephen King
    "A roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm." -The New York Times Book Review
    "One of the year's strongest novels." -Sun Sentinel

    A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.
    Beauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there's no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast.
    He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear.
    Haunted by the ghost of who he used to be and the father who disappeared when he needed him most, Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland...or die trying.
    Like Ocean's Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime.

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    Fiction African American Fiction Mystery Thriller
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