To add insult to injury, unbeknownst to Ray, later this very evening his boss has him all set up to be executed.

It's a sublime piece of fiction - a really gripping thriller but it's also something much rarer. I've not seen either of them but 'Galveston' really shows what his true calling should be. He's since gone on to create and script True Detective and the remake of The Magnificent Seven.

He has just been informed by his doctor that he has terminal lung cancer. Nic Pizzolatto wrote 'Galveston', his first novel, in 2010. 'Pizzolatto's insightful portrayal is rough and tumble real. Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto Our story opens on Ray 'Big Country' Cady, a bagman and enforcer for a New Orleans mobster, having a drink at a bar. Think James Lee Burke meets Midnight In The Garden of Good And Evil with shades of Paris, Texas' ' A good old Southern gothic treat of a road trip through Texas and Louisiana. 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. 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. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galvestons country-western bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. From the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere. 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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