If you're in the mood for a thriller you could definitely do worse than this one, which although a modern novel is written in the Noir style. The story is in two parts, opening in 1987 in New Orleans where the lead character, 40 year-old Roy Cady, is a debt collector/enforcer for a crime boss. Cady has just had a diagnosis of cancer. He doesn't mention it to anyone and in the same evening is sent on a "job", the set up of which sounds suspicious to him. He's right to be suspicious and ends up fl...

3.5/5 EstrellasDesde Galveston, Texas, la ciudad que lleva el nombre de Bernardo de Gálvez, ese padre de la patria estadounidense que casi nadie conoce y que era español, nos llega una historia de redención, una historia de perdición, de vidas perdidas y sin esperanza desde casi el momento mismo de su nacimiento.Una historia deprimente, que transcurre en un entorno gris, sucio y opresivo de los estados sureños de Louisiana y Texas. Una historia muchas veces contada, esa historia "clint eatswoodi...

Weltschmerz. It's not a word that anyone in this book would use, but they sure did feel it. The world weariness applied universally. Nobody’s fools. If you’ve come to know Nic Pizzolatto from True Detective, the stellar* HBO series that he created and wrote, you’d expect that.This is neo-noir at its finest. Underbelly settings, violence you can’t escape, sex, drugs, and cancer if not manslaughter—it’s all there, presented with more poetry than you might expect. Roy Cady, a debt collector for a N...

This is a great novel one that should have a lot more recognition. I wish this author would write more novels. I think he's busy writing television. If you like great noir crime fiction give this one a go. It open by setting a great conflict with x-ray.

David Putnam author of The Bruno Johnson series.

“This has really been one hell of a day for you, huh, man?”“The hellest.” Roy Cady is a big, tough guy doing an ugly, tough job: debt collector for a New Orleans gangster. And his world is just about to come crashing down over his tough head. In the morning, his doctor tells him he has lung cancer and only a few month left to live. Then his trashy girlfriend starts sleeping with his boss, and his evening collection job ends up in a bloodbath. Roy finishes the day on the run towards his childhoo...

. . . I sat on a stool and ordered a beer. Then I remembered I was dying and changed the order to a Johnnie Walker Blue.Damn straight!What a strange reading experience this was . . . The premise seemed so compelling - a terminally ill mob hitman becomes the target of his employers, and yet, I found the characters to be lifeless and dull; the book was impossibly easy to put down. Then, at slightly over the halfway point, the main character goes to visit an old flame. Yowza! What a fantastic scene...

TRUE DETECTIVE”True Detective” la serie tv ideata e scritta da Nic Pizzolatto giunta alla sua terza stagione, che ripete i fasti della prima (e non solo quelli, nel senso che alla prima è debitrice in maniera diretta e palese). Qui le tre trasformazioni del portagonsita Mahershala Ali, già con due Oscar all’attivo (entrambi come miglior attore non protagonista).La questione non è se questo romanzo è all’altezza di True Detective, la magnifica serie tv ideata da Nic Pizzolatto.[Come non lo è stab...

although i bought this book long before true detective existed, i never got around to reading it because i am the worst at reading. thank goodness for andrea, who gave me the kick in the pants when i actually had a tiny little gap of time to read books of my choosing, because this is both right in my wheelhouse and also a nice departure from many similar stories in that noir/grit lit genre. there are similarities between this book and true detective - it's a story told in both the "now" and the ...

When terminally ill mob thug Roy Cady is instructed to do a job without taking bringing a gun, he gets suspicious. The situation goes south and soon Roy is on the run with a packet of important papers and an 18 year old sex kitten named Rocky. What will kill Roy first? The cancer or the mob?Like everyone reading Galveston these days, I love HBO's True Detective, the best thing since sliced Breaking Bad. I'd planned to wait until the series wrapped before reading it but I finally said piss on it....

Hey authors! Want to sell more copies of your book? Just follow Nic Pizzolatto’s simple example and create a hit TV series for HBO that captivates the public. Then sit back and watch the sales increase. (It’ll help if you get Matthew McConaughey on board in the midst of an astounding career turnaround.)Roy Cady is having a very bad day. First, he finds out that he’s dying, and then his criminal boss tries to accelerate the process by setting him up to be murdered. Roy manages to escape New Orlea...