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Dear Reader, Youve just downloaded a free copy of CAUGHTSTEALING by Charlie Huston. Lucky you. I think you’ll agree that Huston is one of the most ruthless-ly inventive storytellers at work today—and I’m notthe only one who thinks so. His books have beennominated for a handful of awards and havereceived high praise, like when Stephen King calledhis novels “blistering” and “unputdownable,” or when the
Washington Post 
said that “Among thevoices of 21st century crime fiction, Charlie Hustonis where it’s at.” So if you dig this novel like I think you will, youshould know that there’s more Charlie Huston to behad. His next novel, THE MYSTIC ARTS OFERASING ALL SIGNS OF DEATH, hits stores January 13th and is not to be missed.  Anyway, I thought you should know. Now back to your regularly scheduled reading,Mark TavaniSenior EditorBallantine Books
 
Praise for 
 AUGHT
TEALING 
by
CHARLIE HUSTON 
“In his debut novel, Huston has come up with a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock.”
 —Entertainment Weekly
“Wow! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy, and brilliant.”
 —
Harlan Coben, author of
 No Second Chance
Caught Stealing
 reads like
The Maltese Falcon
 on crack. Tarantinomeets Hitchcock meets Westlake meets Bukowski in a wild, relent-lessly entertaining ride filled with vivid and colorful—but always believable—characters.”
 —
 Wallace Stroby, author of
The Barbed-Wire Kiss
“It’s hard enough for a writer to hit his mark, but Charlie Hustonshreds his target with his first bullet fired. A frighteningly assured de-but novel.”
 —
 John Ridley, author of
Stray Dogs
 and
The Drift
“A gripping parable of bad things happening to a good person . . .”
 —The Philadelphia Inquirer 
“The mayhem is riveting. . . . Huston shows a masterful command of first-person narrative, deftly chronicling Thompson’s gradual slidefrom victim to avenger. . . . The story moves with the speed of thebest chase novels, and Thompson possesses a self-deprecating spiritthat will keep readers rooting for him even as he edges closer to thepoint of no return.”
 —Publishers Weekly

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