Description: No one knows the seductive world of drugs and addiction better than Kim Wozencraft. In her first novel, Rush, she created an unforgettable heroine, a cop pulled undercover, who risked her life and career when the lines of justice began to blur. Now, in "The Catch," she revisits that world -- only this time she is writing from the other side of the law.

Living like a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, Kurt and Annie have been smuggling enormous quantities of marijuana. Only now, they've got two kids to take care of, and Annie wants to go straight. The novel begins when Kurt, promising to make this trip his last, gets busted big-time by the DEA. It's unclear how much evidence they have, but Kurt, faced with a life sentence, goes on the laim, leaving Annie vulnerable and a prime target for Special Agent Joseph Kessler, who sees Annie as the bait to trap Kurt and as the object of his love.

Wozencraft's clean, spare prose and psychological acuity combine to create a remarkable portrait of the inner life of a woman desperate to keep her family together and the man she loves, whose addiction to danger threatens their very existence. Taut and compelling, "The Catch" is the story of a love triangle set against the world of high-stakes international smuggling and the even higher stakes of love.

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