On the other hand, the book went way too fast. I did more chores and drove more slowly (which is counter intuitive considering the story) so I could find out what happened to Bug. In a word, essential reading for the crime fiction reader. My conclusions I listened to the audiobook here, with excellent narration from Adam Lazarre-White. Behind the burning rubber, it deals with poverty, violence, toxic masculinity - all with a devastating insight, that at times it reads as non-fiction. The plot is engaging, the characters come alive on the page, with the setting and details so richly described that you feel that you are part of the story itself.Īt its core Blacktop Wasteland is a heist movie, but in book-form.
He goes from being a man who makes bad choices, to a man who has no choice but to be bad. He was of course the best getaway driver in Virginia once.īug is a badass character, but one with a heart. With bills mounting, he returns to his former life of a criminal planner (and a getaway driver) – for just one last time. Despite wanting to be a good father, a good husband and to provide for his children - Bug realises that he just can’t. He owes money on his business his kid needs dental work and he has just received a bill from his mother’s nursing home. Nothing in Beauregard Montage’s (aka Bug) life is going right. These situations come up in everyone’s lifer sooner or later. The mortgage on his mechanics shop is behind, his children need braces and college tuition, and his elderly mother needs his financial support. Cosby’s new novel, Razorblade Tears, is a mournful, ambivalent revenge thriller. Where does one start with Blacktop Wasteland? Not a word wasted, gritty, dark and an extraordinary opening-chapter: a prelude to a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat narrative. Beauregard Bug Montage is having money problems. Cosby blows up the odd-couple revenge thriller S.A.
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