But nothing is ever as easy as it seems, and someone might know who did it, and it's not the cops. That's why he can't say no when a former associate offers him a job robbing a jewelry store. Bug tries to work his way through it, but the shiny new car shop in town has cut his clients in half. This book is so much more than a thriller. His mother is about to be kicked out of her retirement home. Blacktop Wasteland is a fast-paced, action-packed, superbly written novel. The stack of bills and final notices is huge. He's been leading a straight life, but everything is crumbling around him. Like Oceans Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. There are guns here, sure, but the strongest hits come from melancholy and the constant ache for a better life.īeauregard "Bug" Montage is a loving father, faithful husband, and honest mechanic, but he has a criminal past and those in the underworld know him as one of the best drivers in the business. Instead, this book is a cry about race that starts somewhere in Appalachia and echoes across the country. If it weren't for the time it takes to write, edit, and sell a novel - and the months it takes to finally see it in print when dealing with a large press - you'd think Cosby plucked every crucial racial topic the past month's headlines and used them to build a novel. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland, which is marketed as a crime novel, is that crime is the least important element in the book.
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