A place where poverty and sometimes avarice guide the actions of its inhabitants. Where folks think a double-wide mobile home is the epitome of what life will provide them. The rural south, where poverty breeds desperation and racial profiling is a grim reality. In addition to being a ‘heist’ crime novel, “ Blacktop Wasteland” examines the situation that people who are living in poverty experience. Despite his upbringing, his intelligence, his eidetic memory, and his strong moral code ensured that he was truly a character who the reader is rooting for throughout the narrative despite his criminal proclivity. A good man whose family history, fate, and circumstance conspire against him at every turn.Ī loving husband and father, Beauregard was brought up in dire poverty with only a criminal father as a role model. Cosby who created a criminal protagonist – a man whose actions were often deadly and cunning – but is also a likeable, empathetic, moral, good man. Set during a sweltering Virginia summer, the oppressive heat seemed palpable. After all, I’m a white grandmother from Canada who has little basis to ‘relate’ to Beauregard Montage.
I didn’t expect to love it quite as much as I did. Fast-paced, gritty crime fiction featuring very real characters. If I had to give this novel a label, it would be Southern Rural Noir. A decision he will come to bitterly regret… and one that will irrevocably change his world. He agrees to drive for a heist from a jewelry store. A dangerous world where the payday is lucrative, but the risks are deadly.īug is the best driver on the eastern seaboard. Desperate, he once again returns to the world of crime.
He is getting final notice demands on his credit card bills. His mother is about to be turfed out of her nursing home due to lack of payment.
His boys need -and his daughter needs college tuition money. His business is behind in its rent and the garage is losing business to a competitor. “A mistake is a lesson, unless you make the same mistake twice.”īeauregard Montage ( nicknamed ‘Bug’) is a black man in his late thirties who is feeling the squeeze of financial commitments.
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