![]() ![]() Hank isn’t your typical innocent man thrust into peril. The elements may be relatively routine, but the characters aren’t. It’s standard-issue crime novel stuff, but Huston plays this game with astonishing skill. Men in cowboy hats and boots visit the absent Russ’s apartment in the middle of the night. ![]() Suddenly, scary Russians in tracksuits beat him up, destroying one of his kidneys. But after his shady neighbor Russ asks Hank to watch Russ’s cat while he’s away, poor Hank’s life is thrown into upheaval. ![]() He’s working as a bartender in New York as the story starts – an unremarkable man, but a nice, trustworthy one. The tragic death of a friend shortly after compounded his anguish, and Hank never really recovered. But it’s the kind of happy you might feel if you thought someone were about to kill you, and they just maimed you instead.Ĭaught Stealing is about a sad sack named Hank Thompson, whose promising baseball career was derailed by an injury in his youth. Oh sure, the book has a happy conclusion of sorts. Charlie Huston’s Caught Stealing is the kind of novel that makes you realize that happy endings are overrated. ![]()
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