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. Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. 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. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear. Blacktop Wasteland is a heist novel that centers on the wheel man, the getaway driver, like a more realistic version of Edgar Wrights Baby Driver but just as.

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. Cosby reinvents the American crime novel. Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of Since We Felland Mystic River Diamonds and fast cars, trailer park dreams and late night illegal street racing, S.

Cosby is a welcome, refreshing new voice in crime literature. Beauregard Bug Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husb. 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. Blacktop Wasteland is an urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American noir. Read 4,366 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 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. It also won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize.A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.īeauregard 'Bug' Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. In 2021, this book won the Anthony Awards. Perhaps ironically, as Beauregard reenters the unsavory underbelly world of crime figures, '.he realizes that he feels more at home.than he ever did in the straight life.' The reader is a witness as that one last heist goes awry and Beauregard gets caught up in the chaos that follows. His embittered mother faces eviction from the nursing home.' He decides to do one last heist so he can get back into the black. But his auto shop is falling deeper into debt. Beauregard no longer engages in crime, supporting his wife and two sons on the straight and narrow. He is also exceedingly talented behind the wheel of a car. Beauregard “Bug” Montage, the protagonist, is a black auto mechanic and auto shop owner in a small southern town in rural Virginia.

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