Blacktop Wasteland

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 novel 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

‘The book will leave you breathless,