![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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'. 'The elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story makes it unforgettable' Daily Mailįrom the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere. 'Recalls only the finest examples of the form' Dennis Lehane ![]()
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