num_pages: 314
description: Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney locked up on charges of marijuana possession has escaped his cell and sprinted to the highway. There he is picked up by a friend of his sisters and transported to a strip bar where he survives his first night on the run. But evading the cops isnt his only objective; Slaney intends to track down his old partner Hearn and get back into the drug business. Along the way Slaneys fugitive journey across Canada rushes vibrantly to life as he visits an old flame and adopts numerous guises to outpace authorities: hitchhiker houseguest student lover. When finally he reunites with Hearn just steps ahead of a detective hell-bent on making a high-profile arrest their scheme sends Slaney to Mexico Colombia and back again on an epic quest fueled by luck charm and unbending conviction. Moore's most plot-driven novel to date Caught is a thrillingly charged escapade that thrums with energy and suspense and deftly captures a moment in the late 1970s before the almost folkloric glamour surrounding pot smuggling turned violent. Ripe with bravado love ambition and folly Caught is about trust and deceit about the risks we take for the lives we want and the mistakes we cant outrun.
language: English
title: Caught
publisher: Anasi