From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series "True Detective," comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston.
On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking [...]

A reissue of Nic Pizzolatto's debut short story collection, now featuring two previously uncollected stories.
Set in a variety of Southern landscapes, these startling stories excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bri[...]