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Ebook About Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2020 • BookPage’s #1 Mystery and Suspense of 2020 • Sun Sentinel’s #1 Best Mystery of 2020 “I loved Blacktop Wasteland...[A] fast-paced, bareknuckle thriller.” -Stephen King“A roaring, full-throttle thriller, crackling with tension and charm.” -The New York Times Book Review"One of the year's strongest novels." -Sun SentinelA husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. 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.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. 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. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear.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.Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. 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.Book Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel Review :
"The thing about loving someone was that they knew all your pressure points. They knew all the spots that were open and raw. You let them into your heart and they cased the place."BLACKTOP WASTELAND has been praised to the firmament and promoted to the farthest reaches of the universe, and while that's a lot for a novel to live up to, S.A. Cosby's crime novel deserves all of it and more. It not only affords a new angle on America from the 10,000-foot view as well as the 1-inch level, it is pure high-octane pleasure on every page, delivering familiar pleasures in fresh packaging. No need to unpack its smart authenticity about how the deck is stacked against blacks in America in 2020; that's been done better by better people, and the white man that I am can't come close to replicating, let alone improving, on their insights.Inside, I'll take a different tack. I usually despise tropes in crime fiction, as they're often used in the service of paint-by-numbers plotting and cardboard characterizations to create a sense of commercially palatable comfort that's calculated to move units. But BLACKTOP WASTELAND is a different beast — it leans into its tropes with such sincerity and weight that they become features, not bugs. To be more specific:— The Heist. There's not a lot here you couldn't find in, say, CHARLEY VARRICK. There's a team, and the team has a leader, a weak soldier, a more-clever-than-smart lieutenant that's holding back something unsettling about their motive, the girlfriend who can't be completely trusted, etc. Something always goes wrong; somebody always gets killed.— One Last Job. The hero knows it's stupid to get pulled back into the life he's been trying to leave behind. But he needs the money, he feels forced into it by scary people, and whether or not he can admit it, he's addicted to the thrill of the planning and execution.— Daddy Issues. The hero feels he has to live up to what his daddy is, or what his daddy expects of him, or what his daddy has decided he isn't capable of. He knows it's emotional stupid, but he's in the grip of it nonetheless.— The Yappy Wife/Girlfriend. The women in male-centric crime novels are always on the sidelines, always nagging their man to do the safe but boring thing, always pummeling them with rage and tears, always threatening to leave and take the kids. They're always right, too. Except for ....— A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do. Yes, he should walk away. But he can't. Not when he's gotta provide. Not when his manhood is being challenged or taunted. Not when his Daddy Issues dominate him. Not when he has to do One Last Job because His Past WillNever Leave Him Be. But most of all, because he needs to feel like a Man.Alone, these tropes are usually annoying. Together, they're all but unbearable, because usually the author doesn't unpack them — they just drop them flat on the page with little explanation in the expectation that the reader will find them instantly sympathetic and thus sublime company from page to page. These are almost everywhere in the contemporary suspense/thriller moment: My Sister Was Murdered Twenty Years Ago; My High School Secret Won't Stay Buried; My New Husband and Wife Is Keeping Something From Me; I've Been Cheated Upon and Need to Start Over in My Small Hometown; Why Is the Sexy New Au Pair Looking at Me With That Sly Insinuating Smile, etc.But S.A. Cosby doubles down them these tropes with such utter pain and sincerity that they become utterly necessary and plausible. The circumstances that lead Beauregard "Bug" Montage to decide the financial gain from a jewelry-store holdup are laid out in patient detail that should resonate with anyone struggling to keep a family maintained or a business afloat. The circumstances are so pressing and the payoff so enticing that they not only lead Beauregard to look past the loose ends of the One Last Job that threaten to pull apart the fabric of the heist plan, but the loose characters on which he has to depend. We don't learn about these unreliables in passing; we get to see the irratuonal justifications of the unreliables in their own voices.The Daddy Issues seem decorative until they are unpacked in a flashback scene that shows, completely convincingly, how Beauregard's formative years were torn apart by the need to live up to his Daddy's reputation and the knowledge that any credible future he has depends on shedding his patriarchal skin and going straight. You can't read that scene and not understand the good and bad angels sitting on Beauregard's shoulders and shouting into his ears every waking second of every day.And The Yappy Wife/Girlfriend trope is redeemed in the final pages: when he most needs to firmly grasp the wheel of his future and decide whether to turn one direction or the other, Beauregard stops shining on his wife and pretending to pay attention to her, and for once actually listens, and finds defining wisdom in her words. It was a brave choice that redeemed the Man's Gotta Do trope.Much of what is being said about BLACKTOP WASTELAND will, justifiably, focus on its window into Black America, its canny empathy with economic inequality, its spotlight on systemic unfairness. But I hope some see the novel for the superiority of its craft and the sincerity with which it's practiced. These things are what gives this wonderful novel the emotional burst that engages with the story like a supercharger engages with a car at high speed. BLACKTOP WASTELAND not only fires cleanly on all cylinders, it boils the road of its genre and leaves most other crime novels still trying to get off the starting line. I bought Blacktop Wasteland solely on the recommendation of Lee Child. He did not disappoint. If you enjoy a good simile or metaphor, try these: “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he was meant to be.” “When he stepped off the porch, he could feel the sun beating down on him like he owed it money.” “He was about as useful as a white crayon.” “What’s your name? What your mama call you when she mad?” “The old leather in the couch smelled like tobacco that had been soaked in oil.” “His mother was one flat tire and a bad day away from a nervous breakdown.” “Like The King said, ambition was just a dream with a V8 engine. He was gonna ride that V8 all the way to sand by the ton and water so clear you could see the mermaid coming up to give you a kiss.” “Horace was grinning with a smile that made him look like a jack-o-lantern that had been carved by a Parkinson’s victim.” Hold your horses boy. I’ll be there. G**d***mosquitoes be driving trucks down there.” The book opens with a drag race that will have you smelling burnt rubber...and ends with “other faces joined them accompanied by the squeal of tires and the shriek of bullets. Wives he had made widows.” If Black Wasteland had been targeted at women, it’d be labeled chick lit or a beach read. As it’s written, it should be read with a non-filtered Lucky Strike and a long-neck beer! Burp! 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