Mae's Reviews > Caught

I have to be honest and say that I almost gave up reading this book at the 100 page mark.
It did improve and I picked up the rhythm of the story telling but it was touch and go.
The story is based in June 1978 and David Slaney had just escaped prison. He was in prison for drug smuggling. His partner in crime managed to not go to jail and is living under another name in Vancouver. Slaney has to get himself from an east coast prison to Vancouver. It seems as the story goes that his prison break is being financed by his former partner, Brian Hearn.
All kinds of things happen to David Slaney as he makes his way west and he meets all kinds of people. As it turns out he is being followed by the police. This is not giving anything away since it is all part of the story. David thinking he is free but is he really?
He finally meets up with his good buddy Brian who has arranged for him to take on one more job of smuggling. Sending him to Colombia to bring back marijuana. David proceeds even though there are all kinds of red flags. Nothing in this story explains why David is so stupid as to believe and trust Brian when his own senses are telling him things are not right. Which is my main complaint about the story.
It is ,after awhile, an interesting story and you can get hooked by the story if you do struggle with the first 100 pages.
I like David but I don't like his blind devotion to Brian because it makes no sense to me. There are all kinds of things that happen in this story that should make David say stop but he does not. So I guess that is his fatal flaw. I guess that is why the book is called Caught. David is caught in something and it won't let him go or he won't let go.
There is some action in this story and there seems to be a lot of movement forward but is there really?
By the end of it I wanted to throw the book across the room because I was very frustrated with David and just wanted to shake him up.