![]() ![]() ![]() Roy soon finds that, despite a desire to ditch Rocky (and her toddler ‘sister’, Tiffany, who they pick up on the way to Texas), he can’t seem to follow through. After the set-up (mentioned in the synopsis, above), he escapes bruised and brutalised, taking with him Rocky (Raquel), the partner of a prostitute who was turning a trick at the home of the trap. The story is told from the perspective of Roy, a bagman for a crook in New Orleans. However, it also left me slightly dissatisfied at the end. This is a good thriller: very well-written and fast-paced. Only after finishing this novel, did I learn that Pizzolatto is the creator of HBO’s critically-acclaimed True Detective series (starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConnaughey). 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. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy’s would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.īefore 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. Following a fling with his boss’s lover, he’s sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he’s a walking time-bomb of violence. ![]() Roy Cady is by his own admission “a bad man”. ![]()
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