Blacktop Wasteland

Beauregard "Bug" Montage runs an auto repair business, is married and has children. He works hard and wants a quiet life. Years ago he was known as the best getaway driver on the East Coast, with a reputation stretching from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida.

That life is supposed to be finished. Bug sees no future in the man he used to be, and he has spent years building something different. Now the new life he built is starting to fall apart, and the pressure pulls him back toward the violence he left behind.

A smooth-talking former associate turns up with a plan for a jewelry store heist that he swears cannot fail. Bug feels he has no real choice but to take the wheel again. Behind the wheel, he is at his best, where gasoline and fear share the air.

He is also dealing with the person he used to be and with his father, who vanished when Bug needed him most. This is a crime novel centered on a heist and the driver who has to pull it off, with a dark, violent tone. Bug has to find a way through this hard country, or die trying.