The noir story quickly accelerates and doesn’t lose speed until it. Cosby, a new talent who delivers one of the year’s strongest novels. Heres what its all about: Source: Owned CopyRelease Date: 14 July 2020Publisher: Headline About the Book 'Bug' Montage: honest mechanic, loving family man.

Cosby and I have to say a huge thank you to Craig Sisterson for the recommendation. In a word, essential reading for the crime fiction reader. comment Share Blacktop Wasteland introduces S.A. Today I am sharing my thoughts on Blacktop Wasteland by S. Behind the burning rubber, it deals with poverty, violence, toxic masculinity - all with a devastating insight, that at times it reads as non-fiction. The plot is engaging, the characters come alive on the page, with the setting and details so richly described that you feel that you are part of the story itself.Īt its core Blacktop Wasteland is a heist movie, but in book-form. He goes from being a man who makes bad choices, to a man who has no choice but to be bad.

He was of course the best getaway driver in Virginia once.īug is a badass character, but one with a heart. With bills mounting, he returns to his former life of a criminal planner (and a getaway driver) – for just one last time. These situations come up in everyone’s lifer sooner or later. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear. The mortgage on his mechanics shop is behind, his children need braces and college tuition, and his elderly mother needs his financial support. 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. Despite wanting to be a good father, a good husband and to provide for his children - Bug realises that he just can’t. Beauregard Bug Montage is having money problems. He owes money on his business his kid needs dental work and he has just received a bill from his mother’s nursing home. Nothing in Beauregard Montage’s (aka Bug) life is going right. Where does one start with Blacktop Wasteland? Not a word wasted, gritty, dark and an extraordinary opening-chapter: a prelude to a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat narrative.

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