![]() ![]() ![]() As he says, once you’re in the Life, you are always in the Life. ![]() This is also welcome, Cosby is well aware of the “one last job” trope and doesn’t begin with it, though we know that Bug will be stealing again soon. His wife knows his past, and he went clean after a big job years ago. Or to say it short: Bug Montage is a tough criminal at heart, who wrestles with his daily life as a rural county mechanic and a family man. Cosby, I was pleasantly surprised that it began with an illegal street race out in the empty highways that give the novel its inspired title, where we meet Beauregard “Bug” Montage, a skilled hot rodder both behind the wheel and under the hood, the son of a getaway driver and thief who is neither ashamed nor afraid to indulge in the profession of his birthright. ![]() So when I opened Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it gets a little tiresome to have a moral scorecard being checked off when writing what is supposed to be crime. Robin Hood thieves have taken hold, and often when I read fictional criminals, they are less like Richard Stark’s Parker and Wallace Stroby’s Crissa Stone and more like a shadowy justice department where the important thing is to steal only from cartoon villains and distribute most of the gains to their victims. Heist novels are a staple of the genre but often they are few and far between. ![]()
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