BEHIND THE WHEEL
It would be doing SA (Shawn) Cosby a disservice to overly focus on the violence in his novels. Yes, people are hit with wrenches, bludgeoned with gardening tools, cars flip, buildings explode and bodies are fed through wood chippers, but it never feels gratuitous. “If two characters are fighting, I want it to be about something,” says Cosby from his home in Virginia. “It’s about how they react to the fight. I want it to feel stressful for the characters and the readers.”
He wants to make you care so much about the character that by the time somebody punches him in the face you should be worried about him, he
