Blacktop Wasteland | Book Review

Jun 4

BLACKTOP WASTELAND

S.A. Cosby | 2020 | 304pgs | Fiction

Blacktop Wasteland has a quintessentially noir setup: A notoriously good getaway driver tries to leave the life behind and go straight but financial burden, modern family life and his past comes back to draw him into the fire one last time. Cosby takes these time-worn tropes and doesn’t try to reinvent the wheelman. Instead he embraces them, adds a southern spin, a good amount of heart and some nasty villains to create one of my favorite crime novels of the decade.

Cosby writes with a style that seems simple on the surface but rims the edge of the text with heartbreaking struggle and occasionally beautiful and striking prose about the world Beauregard “Bug” Montage lives in. You feel for him and his family, his struggles to run a small indie business and keep things on the (mostly) straight and narrow and you feel his spirit break free and fly when he’s doing what he does best – Hitting the gas and feeling the tires turn. Highly recommended.

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