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Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder
Beauregard “Bug” Montage is a family man that is living on the straight and narrow after extricating himself from a life of crime. When bad luck starts piling against him Bug gambles with his future and takes on one last heist in order to save his business and secure his family’s future.
What I love about S.A. Cosby:
-His protagonists are always smooth and deliberate. He features male protagonists that are underestimated but end up proving they have brains and brawn.
-In an interview Cosby stated that he writes thrillers as a way to tackle heavy themes of poverty and racism in a more palatable manor which reaches a wider range of audience compared to if he were to right straight literary fiction.
-He blocks out each scene, so the reader is able to visualize the action; car chases, bank robberies, shoot outs, fight scenes
If you are a fan of Hell or High Water or Sons of Anarchy Blacktop Wasteland book is a good segue into literary hardboiled crime fiction
Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Abandonment
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Blood, Alcohol
Minor: Racial slurs, Racism
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racism, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Classism
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
The first couple of chapters ease the reader in slowly. You learn about the main character, his problems, his love for family, his violent history. By a third of the way in, you’re trapped - there’s no way you’re getting out of this book without reading it to the end. The first action sequence is mind-bogglingly good and it just gets better and better.
Cosby writes action that doesn’t let up. Everything is clear not just in terms of plot but in logistics. I fear I’m not articulating how bowled over I was by this book.
If you strip away the action and mystery, what’s left is an aching diatribe on the state of the Black man in white America. It’s a scathing rebuke.
Truly fabulous book. I hope Cosby keeps writing and writing and writing. He’s a literary treasure.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Gun violence, Murder
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual content, Blood, Murder
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Alcohol
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Violence, Murder
Minor: Body shaming, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture