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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100345464788

ISBN-139780345464781

eBay Product ID (ePID)30986775

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Book TitleCaught Stealing : a Novel

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / General, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense

GenreFiction

AuthorCharlie Huston

Book SeriesHenry Thompson Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-097462

Reviews"Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant." --HARLAN COBEN, author of No Second Chance " Caught Stealing reads like The Maltese Falcon on crack. Tarantino meets Hitchcock meets Westlake meets Bukowski in a wild, relentlessly entertaining ride filled with vivid and colorful--but always believable--characters." --WALLACE STROBY, author of The Barbed-Wire Kiss "It's hard enough for a writer to hit his mark, but Charlie Huston shreds his target with his first bullet fired. A frighteningly assured debut novel." --JOHN RIDLEY, author of Stray Dogs and The Drift From the Hardcover edition., "Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant." -HARLAN COBEN, author ofNo Second Chance "Caught Stealingreads likeThe Maltese Falconon crack. Tarantino meets Hitchcock meets Westlake meets Bukowski in a wild, relentlessly entertaining ride filled with vivid and colorful-but always believable-characters." -WALLACE STROBY, author ofThe Barbed-Wire Kiss "It's hard enough for a writer to hit his mark, but Charlie Huston shreds his target with his first bullet fired. A frighteningly assured debut novel." -JOHN RIDLEY, author ofStray DogsandThe Drift From the Hardcover edition., "Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant." -HARLAN COBEN, author of No Second Chance " Caught Stealing reads like The Maltese Falcon on crack. Tarantino meets Hitchcock meets Westlake meets Bukowski in a wild, relentlessly entertaining ride filled with vivid and colorful-but always believable-characters." -WALLACE STROBY, author of The Barbed-Wire Kiss "It's hard enough for a writer to hit his mark, but Charlie Huston shreds his target with his first bullet fired. A frighteningly assured debut novel." -JOHN RIDLEY, author of Stray Dogs and The Drift From the Hardcover edition., "Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant." HARLAN COBEN, author of No Second Chance " Caught Stealing reads like The Maltese Falcon on crack. Tarantino meets Hitchcock meets Westlake meets Bukowski in a wild, relentlessly entertaining ride filled with vivid and colorfulbut always believablecharacters." WALLACE STROBY, author of The Barbed-Wire Kiss "It's hard enough for a writer to hit his mark, but Charlie Huston shreds his target with his first bullet fired. A frighteningly assured debut novel." JOHN RIDLEY, author of Stray Dogs and The Drift From the Hardcover edition.

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Synopsis" A] fantastically hopped-up thriller . . . a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock."-- Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) 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., A retired baseball player finds himself fighting for his life in this "fantastically hopped-up thriller with a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock" ( Entertainment Weekly , Editor's Choice). "Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant."-Harlan Coben Soon to be a major motion picture starring Austin Butler and directed by Darren Aronofsky Henry "call me Hank" Thompson used to play California baseball. Now he tends to a bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When two Russians in tracksuits beat Hank to a pulp, he gets the clue- 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, 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 some Russian hoods and a flat-out freakshow of goons. All because once, in another life, the only thing Hank wanted to steal was third base-without getting caught. Henry "Hank" Thompson's thrilling adventures continue- CAUGHT STEALING . SIX BAD THINGS . A DANGEROUS MAN, A retired baseball player finds himself fighting for his life in this "fantastically hopped-up thriller [with] a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock" ( Entertainment Weekly , Editor's Choice). "Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant."--Harlan Coben In development as a major motion picture starring Austin Butler and directed by Darren Aronofsky Henry "call me Hank" Thompson used to play California baseball. Now he tends to a bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When two Russians in tracksuits beat Hank to a pulp, he gets the clue: 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, 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 some Russian hoods and a flat-out freakshow of goons. All because once, in another life, the only thing Hank wanted to steal was third base--without getting caught.

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