# Galveston

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- Book: [Galveston](https://www.bookquiver.com/nic-pizzolatto/galveston) ([Galveston.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nic-pizzolatto/galveston.md))
- Authors: [Nic Pizzolatto](https://www.bookquiver.com/nic-pizzolatto)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0553-219-8
- Published: 2014-09-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

From the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere. Roy Cady is by his own admission 'a bad man'. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman in the apartment, and sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a crucial decision. He takes her with him on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas, permanently entwining their fate along a highway of seedy bars and fleabag hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pick-up trucks, and ashed-out hopes, with death just a car-length behind. Nic Pizzolatto's highly acclaimed, Edgar Award-nominated thriller announces the arrival of a major new talent for fans of Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke and Breaking Bad.