Caught Stealing: A Novel

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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 "A brilliant storyteller." -Stephen King In development as a major motion picture starring Austin Butler and directed by Darren Aronofsky 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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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

Its 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

Author Bio

Charles Huston is a novelist and screenwriter. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife, the actress Virginia Louise Smith.