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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 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. <br>--HARLAN COBEN, author of No Second Chance <br> 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. <br>--WALLACE STROBY, author of The Barbed-Wire Kiss <br> 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. <br>--JOHN RIDLEY, author of Stray Dogs and The Drift<br> <p> From the Hardcover edition.

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

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