6/25/2023 0 Comments Blacktop wasteland book![]() ![]() ![]() Like "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Drive" (but with a mostly black cast of characters), Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of sons living up (or down) to their fathers of a heist gone sideways of a man ground down by economic desperation of fast cars and daring chases and identity and love."- |c Provided by publisher. After a series of financial calamities, Bug feels he has no choice but to take one final job as the getaway driver for a daring diamond heist that could solve all his money troubles and allow him to go straight once and for all. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. Cosby has an uncanny knack for weaving righteous anger, heartfelt reflection, and even the inarticulate space between those two, into compulsively readable. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. An Amazon Best Book of July 2021: We couldn’t have loved Cosby’s last book, Blacktop Wasteland, more, so it’s gratifying to report that Razorblade Tears is just as good, if not better. |a "A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. |a New York : |b Flatiron Books, |c 2020. ![]()
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