As Catch Can
By Vincent Zandri
(Dell, Mass Market Paperback, 9780440226215, 368pp.)
Publication Date: February 8, 2000
Categories: Suspense
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Getting caught is simply not an option.
It's been a year since Jack Marconi's wife was killed. Ever since, he's been slipping up at his job as warden at an upstate New York prison. It makes him the perfect patsy when a cop-killer breaks out--with the help of someone on the inside. Throwing himself into the hunt for the fleeing con, Jack doesn't see what's coming.
Suddenly the walls are closing in. And in the next twenty-four hours, Jack will defy direct orders, tamper with evidence, kidnap the con's girlfriend--and run from the law with a .45 hidden beneath his sports coat. Because Jack Marconi, keeper of laws, men, secrets, and memories, has been set up--by a conspiracy that has turned everyone he ever trusted into an enemy. And everything he ever believed in into the worst kind of lie.
Vincent Zandri has been a reporter for New York Newsday and The Times-Union (Albany). He has published short fiction in numerous journals and holds an MFA from Vermont College. He lives with his family in Albany. This is his first novel.
"Sensational....Masterful....Brilliant."
--New York Post
"Probably the most arresting first crime novel to break into print this season. Readers will be held captive by prose that pounds as steadily as an elevated pulse."
--Boston Herald
"Exciting...an engrossing thriller."
--Rocky Mountain News
"A thriller that has depth and substance, wickedness and compassion....A smoking gun of a debut novel."
--The Times-Union (Albany)
"A satisfying yarn."
--Chicago Tribune
"The action never wanes."
--Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting."
--Harlan Coben, author of The Final Detail
"Superb."
--The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Non-stop action."
--I Love a Mystery
"Tough, stylish, heartbreaking."
--Don Winslow, author of The Death & Life of Bobby Z
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