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Caught

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Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.

"In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers

Internationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable new novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.

Here are bravado and betrayal, bad weather and seas, love, undercover agents, the collusion of governments, unbridled ambition, innocence and the loss thereof, and many, many bales of marijuana. Here, too, is the seeming invincibility of youth and all the folly that it allows.

Caught is an exuberant, relentlessly suspenseful, and utterly unique novel, and promises to be the astonishing Lisa Moore's most accomplished work to date.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 7, 2013
      Set in the late 1970s, Moore’s (February) latest is a smartly crafted novel about David Slaney and his two goals: first, to break out of prison and not get caught; and second, to move millions of dollars’ worth of marijuana from Colombia to Canada and not get caught. It will be his second attempt, and he’s sure that he’s going to be successful this time. After escaping from prison in Nova Scotia, Slaney must travel to Montreal and reach his close friend and partner in crime, Hearn, to finalize their plan. The book’s title, of course, brashly reveals the ending, yet Moore lets the plot unfold little by little, and it’s gripping. And Moore’s prose is as engaging as her skillful plotting. Dialogue is at once crystal clear and elliptical, and descriptive passages pulse with life, as in this sentence about mosquitoes: “They settled on his skin and put their fine things into him and they were lulled and bloated and thought themselves sexy and near death.”

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