IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.Beauregard Bug Montage: husband father honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North Carolina to the beaches of Florida - as the best getaway driver on the East Coast. Just like his father who disappeared many years ago.After a series of financial calamities (worsened by the racial prejudices of the small town he liveIT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.Beauregard Bug Montage: husband father honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North Carolina to the beaches of Florida - as the best getaway driver on the East Coast. Just like his father who disappeared many years ago.After a series of financial calamities (worsened by the racial prejudices of the small town he lives in) Bug reluctantly takes part in a daring diamond heist to solve his money troubles - and to go straight once and for all. However when it goes horrifically wrong he's sucked into a grimy underworld which threatens everything and everyone he holds dear . . .From a stunning new voice in fiction BLACKTOP WASTELAND is a dazzling operatic crime novel that holds up a cracked mirror to the American dream. The perfect page-turning read for fans of acclaimed writers such as Don Winslow Attica Locke Bill Beverley and Thomas Mullen.(less)