But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.

It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock.”- Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice) It's not you, it's me.“ fantastically hopped-up thriller. I do sometimes refer to myself in the third person, but only when I feel alienated from myself.

'find things, someone.' he said, 'someone find things.' 'you can find things if you look for them,' someone said he said. he had a sandwich and some potato chips and a can of 7-Up. another rumor says he just wandered off with a notebook and a ballpoint pen and an old paperback with a creased spine. something like he tried to bind an efrieeti to the motor of a 69 Cougar to make a supernatural super charger, but then he mispronounced the third to last syllable of the incantation and got turned into a yellow house finch, and he'll stay that way until he achieves true self knowledge and opens his third eye? both of those rumors may seem like plausible stories to people who know charlie, but they are largely false. The rumors about him? something about him running medical supplies to separatists and how he hid the stuff under bottles of slivovitz wrapped in straw so the border guards would take the plum brandy and never looked deeper? that and the other rumor about a ritual gone wrong. his original scripted podcast about haunted cassette tapes is being developed for Audible.

he's developed shows about cleaning up after dead bodies and penal colonies in space and more vampires and dirty cops for HBO, FX, HBO Max, Sony, and FOX. his books are mostly about people who find themselves in too deep with stolen money or drugs or vampires or spies or the unknowable dangers of the future. he's also developing a feature based on his first novel CAUGHT STEALING. his daughter calls it HOT CRIMINAL ISLAND, which is super on the nose. he's currently writing a spec TV pilot called ARCADIA for Tomorrow Studios. 12 of his novels have been published and a new one called CATCHPENNY is on the way. mostly novels and TV and sometimes comic books and recently a scripted original podcas.

Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston