Blacktop Wasteland

Author(s): S. A. Cosby

Crime | Father's Day Favourites

Staff notes: Blacktop Wasteland will appeal to lovers of pacey crime novels with heart-stopping chase scenes. The protagonist is a 'driver' and mechanic, so there's plenty of detail about modified engines and souped-up vehicles for the car lovers out there. But this is not just a superficial heist story: it's a social commentary on race, poverty and crime in the US. Well worth a read. 


IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. 'Sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. ' LEE CHILD 'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice. Think Elmore Leonard, or Chester Himes...add S. A. Cosby to that list." STEVE CAVANAGH Beauregard "Bug" Montage: honest mechanic, loving husband, devoted parent. He's no longer the criminal he once was - the sharpest wheelman on the east coast, infamous from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida. But when his respectable life begins to crumble, a shady associate comes calling with a clean, one-time job: a diamond heist promising a get-rich payout. Inexorably drawn to the driver's seat - and haunted by the ghost of his outlaw father - Bug is yanked back into a savage world of bullets and betrayal, which soon endangers all he holds dear... Like Breaking Bad in a high-speed collision with Drive, this stunning debut holds up a cracked mirror to the woozy ideals of the American dream - a dazzling, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race and a scarred, self-destructive masculinity. 'Blacktop Wasteland is an urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American noir.' DENNIS LEHANE '...S. A. Cosby reinvents the American crime novel. Blacktop Wasteland thrums and races - it's an intoxicating thrill of a ride'. WALTER MOSLEY The perfect page-turning read for fans of acclaimed writers such as Don Winslow, Attica Locke, Bill Beverley and Thomas Mullen.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781472273741
  • : Headline Publishing Group
  • : Headline Review
  • : 0.3
  • : May 2020
  • : 2.5 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters X 15.5 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : S. A. Cosby
  • : 320
  • : 1
  • : Paperback