Galveston, Nic Pizzolatto
Galveston, Nic Pizzolatto
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Galveston
A Novel

Author: Nic Pizzolatto

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2010


Synopsis

On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, and after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.

Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas—an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl's name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy—and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston's country-western bars and seedy hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes.

Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down.

About Nic Pizzolatto

Nic Pizzolatto's fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, the Oxford American, the Missouri Review, the Iowa Review, Best American Mystery Stories, and other publications. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and his story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea was named by Poets & Writers Magazine one of the top five fiction debuts of the year. Nic lives in Indiana.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on October 05, 2018

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 m......more

Goodreads review by David on November 24, 2020

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......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on March 21, 2014

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 turnarou......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 19, 2019

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......more

Goodreads review by Justo on July 04, 2022

3.5/5 Estrellas Desde 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......more