# Blacktop Wasteland

**\*GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLERS OF 2020\*  
\*LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER 2020\***  
  
**_'_BLACKTOP WASTELAND** **may be the book of the year.'** MICHAEL CONNELLY**  
'Sensationally good'** LEE CHILD**  
'I loved BLACKTOP WASTELAND'** STEPHEN KING  
**'Stunning. Can't remember the last time I read such a powerful crime novel'** MARK BILLINGHAM  
  
"Bug" Montage: honest mechanic, loving family man. He's no longer the criminal he was - the sharpest wheelman east of the Mississippi.  
  
But when his respectable life crumbles, a shady associate comes calling with a one-time job promising a huge 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.  
  
Like _Breaking Bad_ in a high-speed collision with _Drive_, this dazzling novel holds up a cracked mirror to the American Dream - and tells the story of one man pushed to his limits by poverty, race and a self-destructive masculinity.  
  
**'Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice...add S. A. Cosby to that list.'** STEVE CAVANAGH  
  
**'An urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American noir'** DENNIS LEHANE  
  
**'A superb character study wrapped up in a high-octane heist novel'** _Guardian_  
  
**'The action sequences are superb, the dialogue wouldn't shame Elmore Leonard, and Bug's experiences recall Walter Mosley at his most powerful...fantastic'** _Sunday Times_  
  
**'Spectacular....a voice as stark and distinctive as Elmore Leonard's, and a humanity that touches the soul.'** _Daily Mail_  
  
'**A delicious slice of country gothic wrapped in smart, hard, contemporary neo noir.'** ADRIAN McKINTY  
  
**'The book will leave you breathless, but also desperate to know where Cosby will take us next.'** LAURA LIPPMAN  
  
**'...S. A. Cosby reinvents the American crime novel. _Blacktop Wasteland_ thrums and races - it's an intoxicating thrill of a ride'**. WALTER MOSLEY

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