"Sensationally good--new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. More than recommended."
--Lee Child
"
Blacktop Wasteland is an urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American noir. S. A. Cosby is a welcome, refreshing new voice in crime literature."
--Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of
Since We Fell and
Mystic River
"Diamonds and fast cars, trailer park dreams and late night illegal street racing, S. A. Cosby reinvents the American crime novel. Black and white with bills unpaid and no exit in sight, his characters feel the pull of family and swagger with the melancholy ache of wanting to be someone.
Blacktop Wasteland thrums and races--it's an intoxicating thrill of a ride." --Walter Mosley, bestselling author of
Trouble Is What I Do
"
Cosby never misses a note in this high-energy read...
A superb work of crime fiction, uncompromisingly noir but deeply human, too, much like Lou Berney's
November Road (2018)."
--Booklist, starred review"High-octane neo-noir thriller…The gritty, brutal narrative is complemented by the author's sublime use of sensory description and regional imagery. In addition, the
epic, jaw-dropping chase sequences that figure prominently are reason alone to read this pedal-to-the-metal but profoundly sorrowful novel. Cosby is definitely a writer to watch." --Publishers Weekly
"Buckle up. S. A. Cosby is about to take you on a high-speed spin through the rural black south. Muscle cars, backroads racing, double crossing deals and that elusive big score. Red Hill County is my kind of place!" --Ace Atkins,
New York Timesbestselling author of
The Revelators"
Blacktop Wasteland will let the world at large in on what the crime fiction underworld already knows:
S. A. Cosby is a major, original talent. Searing, twisted and jaggedly human, this Southern noir heist novel leaves scars." --Jordan Harper, Edgar Award winning author of
She Rides Shotgun
