A debut literary crime novel for fans of Richard Price, Chuck Palahniuk, Cormac McCarthy, Patrick DeWitt and }The Wire{. It will be published simultaneously in the USA and in France. 'Dark, edgy and riveting' Robert Olen Butler When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip straight down the middle of white, rural America to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy younger brother, Ty - leave the only home they've ever known with a roll of cash, a map and a gun they shouldn't have. Along the way, the country surprises East. Only he can decide which way to go - and which person to become.