"Moore combines the propulsive storytelling of a beach-book thriller
with the skilled use of language and penetrating insights of literary
fiction. She pulls it off seamlessly, creating a vivid, compulsively
readable tale."--Penthouse
Shortlisted for the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the
Scotiabank Giller Prize, Caught is a "propulsive, adrenalin-drenched"
(Globe and Mail) novel from 2013 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
winner Lisa Moore, which brilliantly captures a moment in the late 1970s
before the almost folkloric glamour surrounding pot smuggling turned
violent. Moore's protagonist, David Slaney, is a modern Billy the Kid, a
swaggering folk-hero-in-the making who busts out of prison to embark on
one last great heist and win back the woman he loves. As Slaney makes
his fugitive journey across Canada--tailed closely by a detective
hell-bent on making an arrest--Slaney reignites passions with his old
flame; tracks down his former drug smuggling partner; and adopts
numerous guises to outpace authorities: hitchhiker, houseguest, student,
and lover. Thrumming with energy and suspense, Caught is a thrillingly
charged escapade from one of Canada's most acclaimed writers.
"Outstanding . . . Surprising and superb . . . A literary adventure
story . . . Gripping, detailed, and wholly convincing . . . A supremely
human book . . . combining the complexity of the best literary fiction
with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller."--National
Post
"A new kind of legend for a new Newfoundland."--Reader's Digest
"Exhilarating... a memorably oddball and alluring novel that's
simultaneously breezy, taut, funny, and insightful." --The Vancouver
Sun
