Caught Stealing: A Novel
 

Caught Stealing: A Novel

by Charlie Huston

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... (read more)

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Meet Henry "Hank" Thompson (ex-high school baseball player/star turned alcoholic and all around nice guy), add a favor for a friend (to watch a neighbor's cat "Bud", who ends up being the "key" to the mystery) + a crooked/sadistic cop + some sweat-suit-wearing Russian bad guys + countless other bad guys (two extremely bad brothers)+ a secret key (hidden in Bud's crate) that opens a storage room with 4.4 MILLION dollars + 1 lost kidney + countless gun fights and lots of killing = a novel that...

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