Galveston
Galveston by Nic Pizzolato (the writer behind HBO's True Detective) tells the tale of Roy Cady, a low level criminal enforcer and mob hit man who, as an alcoholic in his early 40s, receives news that he has stage IV lung cancer. To add insult to injury, his boss, a New Orleans mobster named Stan, has begun dating Cady's girlfriend, and is now looking to have him knocked off for the inconvenience.
With dark lyricism and nail-biting prose, Pizzolato's de...