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“Caught’ by Lisa Moore. ( Read January 3rd 2014 )

Lisa Moore’s ‘Caught’ is a real page turner. The story is easy to understand: there is a smuggler (escaped from prison), a cop following him, a chase and a supporting cast of rogues and secondary characters. The book starts strong with a hair-raising prison escape in Nova Scotia. David Slaney, partially succeeds because the police want to track him to his partner in crime, who we get to know is Hearn. He crosses Canada to find Hearn and to try and recoup his losses by drug trafficking. The book is all about how David sees the world as he treks across Canada and then down the Pacific Ocean to Columbia. He is always just one step ahead of the law and in reality the law is just one step behind him. David is an appealing character; he is a bad guy but he is also very likeable. This book is set in 1978, so there is no modern technology available to the police in their chase. This is certainly a unique type of crime novel. The story is always upbeat and the characters portrayed with sympathetic understanding. Descriptions are precise, shining light on small details and illuminating the reality. I think this book would make an excellent movie.
I enjoyed this book so much – it held me completely and I could not put it down. I give it 4 stars.Thank you to Netgalley and Grove Press for allowing me to review this book.