Nic Pizzolatto has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is Galveston.
Galveston
Summary
From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO series True Detective and soon to be a major motion picture comes a dark and visceral novel set along the 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 bar-owner, wants him dead. Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, and after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive. Before Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas—an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable. The girl's name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy—and far too much trouble. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston's country-western bars and seedy hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down.
©2010 Nic Pizzolatto (P)2010 Tantor
Between Here and the Yellow Sea
Summary
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 bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and sometimes the even wider chasms that separate them from their true selves. In this stunning debut, a base-jumping samurai park ranger parachutes off the St. Louis arch. A stained-glass artist struggles over his masterpiece for a castle in Southern Missouri and learns through great loss what his true subject will be. A schoolteacher searches for her missing son, her only clue a mysterious, paint-smeared stencil he left behind. And in the title story, which first appeared in Atlantic Monthly, an orphaned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach's daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to East Texas. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, longing and loss, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea.
©2015 Nic Pizzolatto. Recorded by arrangement with Dzanc Books. (P)2015 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Galveston
Summary
New Orleans 1987: Das Leben des Syndikat-Killers Roy Cady nimmt eine abrupte Wendung, als bei ihm Lungenkrebs diagnostiziert wird und sein Boss ihn wegen einer Eifersuchtsgeschichte umlegen lassen will. Nur knapp kann er dem Anschlag entgehen und dabei sogar ein junges Mädchen retten. Zusammen mit dessen kleiner Schwester fliehen sie an die texanische Küste und stranden in einem heruntergekommenen Motel in Galveston. Doch schnell sind ihnen Syndikat und Polizei auf den Fersen und Cady muss sich entscheiden, ob er sich allein in Sicherheit bringen oder zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben Verantwortung übernehmen will.
©2014 Metrolit. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Gunter Blank (P)2014 DAV