- Hardcover: 310 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385485166
- ISBN-13: 978-0385485166
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,919,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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No one knows the seductive world of drugs and addiction better than Kim Wozencraft. In her first novel, Rush, she created an unforgettable female heroine, a cop pulled undercover, who risked her life and career when the lines of justice began to blur. Now, in The Catch, she revisits that world--only this time she is writing from the other side of the law.
Kurt and Annie have been dealing enormous quantities of pot, living like a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Only now, they've got two kids to take care of and the game has gotten far more dangerous. Annie is desperate to go legit, and the novel begins when Kurt, forever promising to make this trip his last, gets busted big-time by the DEA. It's unclear how much evidence they have, but Kurt won't risk life without parole and tries to convince Annie to take the kids and go on the lam with him. Staying behind and vulnerable, Annie becomes an easy target for DEA agent Joseph Kessler, who first sees Annie and her young sons as the bait to bringing Kurt in, but finds himself falling in love with her as she offers a kind of balm for his own broken life.
Wozencraft's clean, spare prose and psychological acuity combine to create the inner life of a woman desperate to keep her family together and the man she loves, whose addiction to danger threatens their very existence. Taut and compelling, The Catch is the story of a love triangle set against the backdrop of high-stakes drug dealing and the higher stakes of love.
Kurt and Annie have been dealing enormous quantities of pot, living like a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Only now, they've got two kids to take care of and the game has gotten far more dangerous. Annie is desperate to go legit, and the novel begins when Kurt, forever promising to make this trip his last, gets busted big-time by the DEA. It's unclear how much evidence they have, but Kurt won't risk life without parole and tries to convince Annie to take the kids and go on the lam with him. Staying behind and vulnerable, Annie becomes an easy target for DEA agent Joseph Kessler, who first sees Annie and her young sons as the bait to bringing Kurt in, but finds himself falling in love with her as she offers a kind of balm for his own broken life.
Wozencraft's clean, spare prose and psychological acuity combine to create the inner life of a woman desperate to keep her family together and the man she loves, whose addiction to danger threatens their very existence. Taut and compelling, The Catch is the story of a love triangle set against the backdrop of high-stakes drug dealing and the higher stakes of love.
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Format:Hardcover
A well written book. The author does a very good job of relating the turmoil and confusion most of us face in our lives every day. The only thing that detracted from the book for me was the focus. With the wife of the smuggler as the protagonist, you end up seeing the seeing the smuggler as a victim. The view that an otherwise law abiding person whose only fault is that he smuggles relatively benign illicit substances by the TON, is still a good person flabbergasts me. Yet every day I meet people who would be completely won over by this argument. I understand real life is not black and white, but I seldom read for a representation of real life ;)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
well written anti-heroic tragedy
19 Nov 1998
Format:Hardcover
A well written book. The author does a very good job of relating the turmoil and confusion most of us face in our lives every day. The only thing that detracted from the book for me was the focus. With the wife of the smuggler as the protagonist, you end up seeing the seeing the smuggler as a victim. The view that an otherwise law abiding person whose only fault is that he smuggles relatively benign illicit substances by the TON, is still a good person flabbergasts me. Yet every day I meet people who would be completely won over by this argument. I understand real life is not black and white, but I seldom read for a representation of real life ;)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Humanization of drug dealers
1 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
Annie is married to a big-time marijuana smuggler, Kurt. A former drug user herself, they now have two small children and have etched out a life for themselves in upstate New York. She wants him to quit the business, but he is addicted to the adventure. This is big-time stuff, 10 tons or more, and the risks are high. The law is after him and the penalty is life imprisonment without parole. The plot moved swiftly and caught me up in the drama of their lives.
If I have any criticism, it is that there are a few too many loving family scenes, but perhaps this was necessary given the nature of the situation. After all, this book actually humanizes drug dealers.
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