{"product_id":"9780751557053-galveston-from-the-creator-of-true-detective","title":"Galveston: From the creator of True Detective","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Recalls only the finest examples of the form'  Dennis Lehane 'The elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story makes it unforgettable'  Daily Mail From the creator of the hit HBO series  TRUE DETECTIVE  comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere. Roy Cady is by his own admission 'a bad man'. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap.  Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. 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. 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. 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 . ' A good old Southern gothic treat of a road trip  through Texas and Louisiana. Think James Lee Burke meets  MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL  with shades of  PARIS, TEXAS' -  Sam Baker,  The Pool ' Terrific  dialogue' -  Kirkus 'Pizzolatto's  insightful  portrayal is rough and tumble real. He vividly captures Galveston in all its desperate vulnerability' -  Publishers Weekly 'A  truly original  and gifted writer' -  Litro\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48900935319771,"sku":"9780751557053","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/64e8c59f-dcbc-4da8-8149-ee169643a667.jpg?v=1782227987","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780751557053-galveston-from-the-creator-of-true-detective","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}