Galveston is the novel from Nic Pizzolatta who was the show
creator and writer of the neo noir True Detective which was set in Louisiana.
That style of dark realism is shot through this gritty tale of low rtent lives
in the shallow end of the criminal underworld. Rot Cody is a small time
enforcer / hitman cracking head and collecting money for a local crime boss
when what should have been simple job goes horrifically wrong. He’s forced to
run both from the police and his ex-boss taking the only other survivor a
damaged young girl called Rocky with him.
The change in circumstances forces him to evaluate his own
life and he acts like a surrogate father or elder brother to rocky when his
every instinct is screaming at him to abandon her and go it alone.
The writing is shot through with ink black poetry finding
beauty and meaning in the minutiae and gutter scrapings of small lives poorly
lived. The charactisations are spot on
and the plot is more about atmosphere and suspense than full on action. Anyone
who’s looking for an American slice of the dark Scandinavian fiction should
find themselves right at home here.
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