5/12/2023 0 Comments Book blacktop wasteland![]() ![]() ![]() "A roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm." - The New York Times Book Review fast-paced, bareknuckle thriller." -Stephen King Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner - New York Times Notable Book - NPR's Best Books of the Year - BookPage's #1 Mystery and Suspense of the Year - Sun Sentinel's #1 Best Mystery of the Year Like "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Drive" (but with a mostly black cast of characters), Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of sons living up (or down) to their fathers of a heist gone sideways of a man ground down by economic desperation of fast cars and daring chases and identity and love.". After a series of financial calamities, Bug feels he has no choice but to take one final job as the getaway driver for a daring diamond heist that could solve all his money troubles and allow him to go straight once and for all. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. ![]() About the Book "A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. ![]()
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