02361cam a2200385 i 4500 623599410 TxAuBib 20210409120000.0 200121s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020001331 9781250252685 hardcover 1250252687 hardcover (OCoLC)1112262092 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC IK2 rda DLC WYL OCO RB0 TCH YU6 OCLCO IUK OCLCF YDX OCLCO HQD VP@ TXKPL TxAuBib IK2 WYL OCO RB0 TCH YU6 OCLCO IUK OCLCF YDX OCLCO HQD VP@ TXKPL TxAuBib rda Cosby, S. A., author. Blacktop Wasteland / a novel By S.A. Cosby. First edition. New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2020. 285 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series of financial calamities, Bug feels he has no choice but to take one final job as the getaway driver for a daring diamond heist that could solve all his money troubles and allow him to go straight once and for all. Like "Ocean's Eleven" meets "Drive" (but with a mostly black cast of characters), Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of sons living up (or down) to their fathers; of a heist gone sideways; of a man ground down by economic desperation; of fast cars and daring chases and identity and love"-- Provided by publisher. 20210409. Automobile mechanics Fiction. Automobile racing drivers Fiction. Thieves Rehabilitation Fiction. Recidivism Fiction. African American detectives. Crime. Suspense fiction. Thrillers. Fiction. TXKPL