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''Recalls only the finest examples of the form'' Dennis Lehane

''The elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story makes it unforgettable'' Daily Mail

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

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    A Paperback by Nic Pizzolatto

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/27/2014
      ISBN13: 9780751557053, 978-0751557053
      ISBN10: 751557056
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Recalls only the finest examples of the form'' Dennis Lehane

      ''The elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story makes it unforgettable'' Daily Mail

      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

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