Backwater

The final novel, from the bestselling and acclaimed author of DRIVE.

Bishop is finally free. He has traded a badge for a Gibson guitar and a late-night jazz set in New York.

But when Carson, the partner who once knew him better than anyone, asks for help with a blood-drenched abandoned car in Bishop’s childhood town, Bishop cannot say no. The old town of Anne’s Ferry has not changed. It is still a place of half-told stories and long shadows. It is still a place where people vanish.

With Carson missing and a young man brutally murdered, Bishop is pulled into an investigation that leads from a stolen Honda to a veteran haunted by war and to a forgotten violence in the town’s own past.

James Sallis returns to the terrain he makes uniquely his own: mercy as the only way to survive a world filled with crime.