Maxim Jakubowski's Book of the Month.
Finally available in the UK, the first (and so far only) novel by the screenwriter of the quirky TV hit True Detective, this is truly a stunner. Roy Cady is a bad man dying of cancer and when a job goes badly wrong which he barely survives, he spares the life of a young prostitute who was a witness to the carnage and goes on the run with her, and later her child masqurading as her sister, down bleak highways and roads through the wild territories of the American south. This is just a prelude to a tale of lost souls fighting not just their personal demons but the pursuit of deadly thugs on a trail of vengeance. Noir writing with a strange sense of poetry and writing of the highest literary order where every page offers unforgettable lines and characters that will seep into your soul, imperfect creatures you end up loving (and mourning). A novel of noir beauty and a revelation.
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From the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere. Roy Cady is by his own admission 'a bad man'. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before 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. 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.
Galveston features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Galveston is available in Paperback
Galveston was written by Nic Pizzolatto and published by Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Galveston has 258 pages
£9.89
