This was my introduction to author S.A. Cosby and I would be happy to read more. Booklist opens their review with this brief summary: "Heist-novel fans are all-too familiar with the one-last-job premise, but Cosby trumps our expectations with a neat twist: the one-last-job that Beauregard "Bug" Montage, a Black wheelman turned garage owner, must take to keep his business going ..." Now married with kids, Bug was once a well respected wheel man but now is the owner of an auto repair shop that is struggling. The bills are piling up and Bug hopes to get out from under for good. Of course the heist goes wrong and the target turns out to be a really bad guy who wants Bug to do another "last job." Publishers Weekly calls this a "high-octane neo-noir thriller ..."and concludes with: "The gritty, brutal narrative is complemented by the author's sublime use of sensory description and regional imagery. In addition, the epic, jaw-dropping chase sequences that figure prominently are reason alone to read this pedal-to-the-metal but profoundly sorrowful novel." Library Journal comments that "Bug's got a conscience not typical of the thriller genre, but other than that, this debut novel recalls almost perfectly the classic heist thriller..."
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