Always supportive, always insightful and always, always trying to make me a better writer. You have been my own personal Virgil through this Divine Comedy. I’d like to thank my editor, Christine Kopprasch, and everyone at Flatiron Books.

I’m forever grateful I stopped and talked to you in that hotel hallway in St. Josh was the first person to believe in Blacktop Wasteland, and he has always been its fiercest champion. I have been blessed to be surrounded by an incredible group of friends and family and fellow writers who have supported me, cajoled me and when needed given me a swift kick in the rear during this journey.įirst and foremost I’d like to thank my agent, Josh Getzler, and all the great folks at HG Literary. It is said that writing is a lonely endeavor. 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. 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.

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.

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. “One of the year’s strongest novels.” -Sun SentinelĪ 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. “A roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm.” – The New York Times Book Review “I loved Blacktop Wasteland… 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

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