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, perman
ently entwining their fate along a highway of seedy bars and fleabag hotels, a w
orld of treacherous drifters, pick-up trucks, and ashed-out hopes, with death ju
st 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.
