Publisher's Synopsis
Roy Cady is by his own admission "a bad man". With cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb. Following a fling with his boss's lover, he's sent on an assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he finds a beaten-up woman in the apartment, and sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a crucial decision. He takes her with him on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas, permanently entwining their fate along a highway of seedy bars and fleabag hotels, with death just a car-length behind.
