Razorblade Tears
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4.6 • 14 Ratings
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
Winner of the ThrillerFest 2022 Audiobook of the Year Award!
“Lazarre-White's commanding performance is equally riveting. He creates an irresistible listening experience” –AudioFile Magazine
“Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times.” —Michael Connelly,
#1 New York Times bestselling author
A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.
Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.
The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.
Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.
Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.
Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This violent, propulsive thriller from Southern noir master S. A. Cosby packs an emotional punch. Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee, both formerly incarcerated men, are grieving their married sons, who they barely understood, and now they’ve teamed up to find out who murdered them—and take revenge. The two fathers have little in common beyond guilt, rage, and a shared history of failing their gay sons when it mattered most. But that’s enough to fuel a relentless, blood-soaked journey through Virginia’s criminal underworld, and maybe even two long-overdue self-reckonings. Cosby writes with grit, velocity, and real moral weight. Ike and Buddy Lee’s banter is funny, caustic, and often painful in its honesty. Narrator Adam Lazarre-White gives the audiobook just the right mix of menace and heart, drawing out the mismatched duo’s complexity without softening their rough edges. Cathartic and blisteringly fast-paced, Razorblade Tears doesn’t flinch from ugliness, but it never loses sight of grace.
