Sunday, August 1, 2021

Book Review: BLACKTOP WASTELAND by S. A. Cosby

BLACKTOP WASTELAND by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books, July 2020)  Hardcover, 285 pages. ISBN # 9781250252685 



Summary on the Goodreads website . . . . .


Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North Carolina to the beaches of Florida - as the best getaway driver on the East Coast. Just like his father, who disappeared many years ago.


After a series of financial calamities (worsened by the racial prejudices of the small town he lives in) Bug reluctantly takes part in a daring diamond heist to solve his money troubles - and to go straight once and for all. 


However, when it goes horrifically wrong, he's sucked into a grimy underworld which threatens everything, and everyone, he holds dear . . .


My Five-Star Review on the Goodreads website . . . . .


     A steamroller of a crime novel, flattens the competition. The Best crime fiction I've read this year. Fast and furious. 


     Cosby has some incredible descriptive skills. This feels real. The situations and twists and turns in the plot are inventive and absorbing. Cosby takes some familiar crime fiction tropes and makes them fresh. Recommended.

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