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Galveston (Paperback)
Nic Pizzolatto
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R448
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From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime
series "True Detective," comes a dark and visceral literary debut
set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston.
On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness,
he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants
him dead. Known "without affection" to members of the boss's crew
as "Big Country" on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy
boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment
could be a deathtrap. Which it is. Yet what the would-be killers do
to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, which is to
say that after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead
and he is mostly alive.
Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in
the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something
in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He
takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to
Galveston, Texas--an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.
The girl's name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too
sexy--and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in
the battered seascape of Galveston's country-western bars and
fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and
ashed-out hopes. Any chance that they will find safety there is
soon lost. Rocky is a girl with quite a story to tell, one that
will pursue and damage Roy for a very long time to come.
Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy
and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller
is impossible to put down. Constructed with maximum tension and
haunting aftereffect, written in darkly beautiful prose, "Galveston
"announces the arrival of a major new literary talent.
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Galveston (Paperback)
Nic Pizzolatto
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R311
R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
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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. Nic
Pizzolatto's highly acclaimed, Edgar Award-nominated thriller
announces the arrival of a major new talent for fans of Dennis
Lehane, James Lee Burke and Breaking Bad.
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