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Freelance journalist Vincent Zandri was collaborating on the memoirs of a Sing Sing prison guard when he got the idea for a thriller about a warden who has to solve a crime to keep his job and his self-respect. This solid base of reality plus Zandri's lively writing give As Catch Can a definite edge. Jack "Keeper" Marconi knows he's in trouble when a cop killer named Eduard Vasquez escapes from his Green Haven Maximum Security Prison in upstate New York after a trip to an outside dentist which he had approved. Keeper is clearly being fitted for a frame by his superiors in the state's penal system--men with whom he shared a baptism of fire as young guards during the bloody riots at Attica 26 years before. Haunted by these ghosts of his former self and a time when justice seemed more clear-cut, Keeper goes off on his own to see who really helped Vasquez escape. Recently widowed and fogged by too much booze, Keeper could easily have become a rerun of an all-too-familiar genre icon. But Zandri makes both the man and job interesting and original by paying attention to details--from the way the weather affects the prisoners' behavior to the delicate balancing act that governs the relations between guards and prisoners. And there's more than enough creativity and research left over for a promised sequel. --Dick AdlerRead More

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  • Product Description

    Jack Marconi is known as "the Keeper." But in this powerful debut novel, a literary thriller that lays bare the notions of trust and hope, Jack is going to find that everything he's been holding on to can be swept away in the matter of a moment.

    It's been a year since Jack's wife was killed in a bizarre, unresolved auto accident. Ever since, he's been slipping up in his job as the warden of Green Haven, a concrete prison in upstate New York, and it makes him the perfect patsy when an infamous cop-killer escapes with the help of someone on the inside. Throwing himself into the hunt for the fleeing convict, Jack doesn't see what's coming.

    Suddenly, he's through the looking glass, 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.

    With tough, lurid prose, Vincent Zandri has crafted a haunting, broodingly paranoid thriller that moves relentlessly to its final, unforgettable twist.

  • 0385333102
  • 9780385333108
  • Vincent Zandri
  • 28 February 1999
  • Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
  • First Printing
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