Nic Pizzolatto's highly acclaimed, Edgar Award-nominated thriller announces the arrival of a major new talent for fans of Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke and Breaking Bad. He takes her with him on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas, permanently entwining their fate along a highway of seedy bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pick-up trucks, and ashed-out hopes, with death just a car-length behind. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.īefore Roy makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman in the apartment, and sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a crucial decision. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb of violence. Roy Cady is by his own admission 'a bad man'. 'The elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story makes it unforgettable' Daily Mailįrom the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere. 'Recalls only the finest examples of the form' Dennis Lehane
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