Caught Stealing: A Novel

Caught Stealing: A Novel
by Charlie Huston

Caught Stealing: A Novel
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Author: Charlie Huston
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-31
ISBN: 0345464788
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Ballantine Books

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Book Review: The one that started it all
Summary: 5 Stars

Charlie Huston is hands down one of my favorite writers, and I cannot figure out why his work is not more widely known. This was the first book of his that I read, and it hooked me from the start. I can only hope more readers will learn about this original and creative voice in contemporary fiction. If you like suspense, this is really a book you need to read.

Summary of Caught Stealing: A Novel

It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.

It begins when Hank's neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isn't until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesn't know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn't have it.

Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy's head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.

All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third base-without getting caught.


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