Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Pizzolatto, author of the short story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea (2006), delivers a taut first novel suffused with a strong noir sensibility. Roy Cady is working as a strong-arm man for a low-level New Orleans gangster when two events change his life: he's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and his boss puts out a hit on him. Soon enough, Roy and a young prostitute, Rocky--thrown together after a blood-spattered encounter with the would-be hit men--are on the run, traveling from New Orleans to Galveston. "Nothing ends well," Roy muses at one point, and, of course, we know from the start that this road trip is on a collision course with disaster.
