Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel, republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author.
“I handle the bodies.”
Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted. When a beloved local minister is found dead, his parishioners ask Nathan to make sure the death isn’t swept under the rug.
What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1250867630
Item Weight: 0.6 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
Praise for S. A. Cosby: "S. A. Cosby is a welcome, refreshing new voice in crime literature." --Dennis Lehane
"S. A. Cosby reinvents the American crime novel." --Walter Mosley
"Cosby's prose is vibrant and inventive, his action exuberant and relentless. . . . You may come for the setup, but you'll stay for the storytelling. Cosby writes in a spirit of generous abundance and gleeful abandon. . . . This is how crime writers establish a following: by priming readers to get excited about whatever's coming next. If that's the true measure of making a name for yourself, then Cosby's already there." --New York Times Book Review
"Elmore Leonard, wherever you are, you've got competition. . . . S. A. Cosby has reappeared as one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction." --Washington Post
"With writing that's as precise and emotionally engaging as it is cinematic, character and relationships reign supreme. . . . Addictive, arresting entertainment. S. A. Cosby might be a miracle worker. . . . Cosby's high-octane drama cements his ascension as a prince of the literary action thriller." --NPR
S. A. Cosby is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland. Cosby's books were NYT Notable Books and named Best Books of the Year by NPR, BookPage, Goodreads, Library Journal, and Deadly Pleasures, among many others. Cosby has won the LA Times Book Prize, the Anthony Award, the Black Caucus American Library Association Award, and the ITW Thriller Award, and been nominated for the Edgar, the Barry, the Lefty, the Audie, and was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize and the Goodreads Choice Award.
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