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Rush (Mass Market Paperback)

by Kim Wozencraft (Author)
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While working undercover in Texas, 21-year-old narcotics agent Kristen Cates realizes that she and her lover/partner, Jim Raynor, have become drug addicts. " In total command of her material, its language and procedures, and without resort to sensationalism, Wozencraft, a former undercover cop, writes of a world in which pain . . . is nearly palpable," said PW. Author tour.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Lacking cohesion and slow moving to begin with, this story of drug addiction, police corruption, and attempted murder becomes almost painfully intense. Even before attending police academy, Kristen Cates works as an undercover narcotics agent in Pasadena, Texas, falls in love with detective Jim Raynor, and learns to do drugs. Much of the book details the couple's debilitating, pressured routine of hanging out, making buys, gathering (and fabricating) evidence, and ultimately testifying in court against their "friends." Wozencraft's first novel is convincing and realistic, and although it is sometimes a mite heavy-handed, it is always disturbing. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/89.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Forget about the truth..., Mar 24 2001
By Erowida (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Rush (Hardcover)
Who knew anyway! I didn't even know it was based on her own experiences until I read the TVguide online review of the FILM version. Anyway, I'll say it's dynamic, it's insightful about a corrupt town on hard drugs in the disco era...and that's what matters. An innocent girl that's never probably even took a caffeine pill in her life narrates a story about another cop and herself getting high, getting low, and getting shot, getting to lie, and getting convicted. It isn't a fabulously detailed read (where is why the "truth" may be hard to come by) but if you are interested in the semi-real life of some undercover narcs, this is the story for you.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Wish it had told the TRUTH, Mar 12 2000
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Ce commentaire est de: Rush (Hardcover)
The novel Rush, which was written by a convicted felon, was an enjoyable work of part fiction, part non-fiction. Ms. Wozencraft (or Ramsey as she used to be called), not only was a perjuror but was also an abuser of the drugs she was supposed to have been taking off the streets. (See, she used to be an uncover narcotics officer in Texas, before she began to use drugs, skimming of the narcotics that she bought from drug dealers, before turning it into her supervisors. She also later lied on the stand on so many occassions, that over 120 felony cases, including the attempted murder of a police officer, had to be thrown out of court.

Though I enjoyed reading the book (and later viewing the screen adaptation), I also was disapointed that the true "hero" of the story happened to be Ms. Wozencraft's "heroine" (what a pun on words) in the book (which I say was "based" on Ms. Wozencraft's own personal experiences in law enforcement). The truly sad part is that the true story of what happened in a little Texas town, was a better story that should have been written. Ms. Wozencraft (who gave many tv interviews about her "own" experiences) could have written a truthful version of those events, about her participation in the use/abuse & distribution of drugs and her decision to commit perjury on the stand.

Again, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed reading the book. I was able to read it and recall some portions of what she includes in her book and the people that she was "trying not to write about."

Kim Ramsey-Wozencraft should have done a better job in deciding whether her book was "fiction" or "non-fiction." To those people who are familiar with the "true story," it just seems to us that she "plagerized" her book from actual events...she just changed the names and the "truth" of the matter.

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