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. 9781439166642 Author Nic Pizzolatto Publisher Scribner Release 15 June 2010 Share Subjects Fiction Literature Thriller Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. It follows a dying hitman ( Ben Foster ), who escapes a set up and heads to the titular town to plan his revenge, taking a young girl who was kidnapped by his boss ( Elle Fanning ). Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy an. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:03:17 Boxid IA1825918 Camera. and flees to Galveston, Texas with a prostitute and her young sister, where they face more problems Notes.

Publication date 2014 Topics Galveston (Tex.) - Fiction, Texas - Galveston Publisher London. 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. It is written by Nic Pizzolatto (under the pseudonym Jim Hammett) and based on his 2010 novel of the same name. Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto - book cover, description. Read 1,344 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Galveston by Pizzolatto, Nic, 1975- author. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (ebook) Galveston A Novel Nic Pizzolatto, Click to preview From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective, comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston.

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'. From the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere.

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