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Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel Audiobook
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A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 "Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi. This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast. He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear. Haunted by the ghost of who he used to be and the father who disappeared when he needed him most, Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland...or die trying. Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books “Sensationally good—new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. More than recommended.” — Lee Child "A fast-paced, fresh take on noir that tears through the underbelly of Virginia." — New York Times "If you’re looking for dark, gritty, nuanced heist thriller that feels like The Fast and the Furious + The Italian Job + the Starz show Power but set in the south with fantastic, immersive narration, pick this up." -- Book Riot
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"Title:Blacktop WastelandAuthor:S. A. CosbyReader:Adam Lazarre-White - I liked the book WITH Reservations....I am so sick of hearing day after day and year after year and decade after decade about "Ghetto speak" and We should be treated the same. My personal opinion: GET AN EDUCATION and Learn a good job and speak ENGLISH and NOT "Ghetto speak" or ""Ebonics""Almost turned it off 4 times.... and asked for a refund... If I wanted to hear ghetto speak..I would live there...OR ""hang out with Homies" and listen to RAPotherwise the book.... about a third of the way through, starts to catch my interest... then the last half was great. Author:S. A. Cosby: remove the """ghetto speak / ebonics""" and more good novels like this, you will have a new customer."
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“A classic, character-driven heist tale that inhabits that world, but delivers heart-pounding entertainment.”
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“Narrator Adam Lazarre-White’s voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“[A] fresh take on noir that tears through the underbelly of Virginia.”
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“Crosby has a talent for well-tuned action, raising our heart rates and filling our nostrils with odors of gun smoke and burned rubber.”
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“A slick, rural, Southern noir caper threaded with what the author has referred to as ‘tragic masculinity,’ which means it will thrill you and break your heart all at the same time.”
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“Sensationally good—new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty…More than recommended.”
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“A guaranteed thriller-of-the-year with muscle and heart.”
— Michael Koryta, bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead
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A #1 Amazon.com bestseller
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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A #1 BookPage Best Book of 2020
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick of 2020
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South Florida Sun Sentinel Pick of the #1 Best Books of 2020
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The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year Selection
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Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2020
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Library Journal Editor’s Pick of Best Crime Fiction of 2020
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BookRiot Pick of 2020's Best Books
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Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of 2020
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Mystery
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Winner of the 2021 Anthony Award for Best Novel
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Winner of the Barry Award for Best Novel
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Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner, 2020
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Nominated for Anthony Awards - Nominee, 2021
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Winner of Anthony Awards - Winner, 2021
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2020
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2020
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Among shortlisted titles for L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist, 2020
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About S. A. Cosby
S. A. Cosby is an Anthony Award-winning writer from southeastern Virginia. His the bestselling author of Blacktop Wasteland, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist, as well as Brotherhood of the Blade and My Darkest Prayer. When not writing, he is an avid hiker and chess player.
About Adam Lazarre-White
Adam Lazarre-White, best known for starring as Nathan Hastings on The Young & The Restless, also gained notoriety on Living Single, Girlfriends, Will & Grace, The Parkers, and in the Emmy Award–winning miniseries The Temptations. His other television and film credits include Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Deliver Us from Eva, Ocean’s 13, All about You, and Forgiveness. Lazarre-White has many credits as a voice artist on commercial radio, television, and film. He graduated from Harvard and then returned home to New York to train at Terry Schreiber Studios and continue his work on LA stages, notably in Romeo & Juliet, The Trojan Women, and Neil Labute’s This Is How It Goes.