Blacktop Wasteland Audiobook By S. A. Cosby cover art

Blacktop Wasteland

the acclaimed and award-winning crime hit of the year

 Preview
Get this deal Try for $0.00
Offer ends January 21, 2026 11:59pm PT
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just $0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible Premium Plus.
1 audiobook per month of your choice from our unparalleled catalog.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Blacktop Wasteland

By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Get this deal Try for $0.00

$14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime. Offer ends January 21, 2026 11:59pm PT.

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $24.19

Buy for $24.19

LIMITED TIME OFFER | Get 3 months for $0.99 a month

$14.95/mo thereafter-terms apply.

It's a crime that history repeats itself.

Beauregard 'Bug' Montage: honest mechanic, loving husband, devoted parent. He's no longer the criminal he once was - the sharpest wheelman on the east coast, infamous from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida.

But when his respectable life begins to crumble, a shady associate comes calling with a clean, one-time job: a diamond heist promising a get-rich payout. Inexorably drawn to the driver's seat - and haunted by the ghost of his outlaw father - Bug is yanked back into a savage world of bullets and betrayal, which soon endangers all he holds dear.

Like Breaking Bad in a high-speed collision with Drive, this stunning debut holds up a cracked mirror to the woozy ideals of the American dream - a dazzling, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race and a scarred, self-destructive masculinity.

The perfect gripping listen for fans of acclaimed writers such as Don Winslow, Attica Locke, Bill Beverley and Thomas Mullen.

©2020 Shawn A. Cosby (P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Anthony Award Crime Fiction Crime Thrillers Criminology Los Angeles Times Book Prize Noir Social Sciences Suspense Thriller & Suspense

Critic reviews

"Sensationally good - new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart." (Lee Child)

"Every once in a while a writer comes along with an incredible voice. Think Elmore Leonard, or Chester Himes...add S. A. Cosby to that list." (Steve Cavanagh)

"Blacktop Wasteland is an urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American noir." (Dennis Lehane)

All stars
Most relevant
It was great all round. Layered, but lightly presented, which takes serious skill. I can recommend highly.

Great book, perfectly narrated.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
First author to get human anatmy and physioloy correct during action and stress scenes. Muscle cars and driving descriptions all appropriate.

Excellent story, eloquently written

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Why aren't star ratings enough any more?

Why do Audible keep trying to bully me into writing a review rather than thanking me giving a rating?

Five Stars for everything

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.