Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner New York Times Notable Book NPRs Best Books of the Year BookPages #1 Mystery and Suspense of the Year Sun Sentinels #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 years 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 theres 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 hed 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 cant-miss jewelry store heist Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the drivers 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 Oceans Eleven meets Drive with a Southern noir twist S. A. Cosbys Blacktop Wasteland is a searing operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty race and his own former life of crime.