Book Review

Wanted

Wanted by Kim Wozencraft, published by St. Martin's

Reviewed by Mike Shea

September 2004

Dallas native Kim Wozencraft made her name with Rush, the best-selling fictionalization and movie of her undercover narcotics work. Combine that experience with her subsequent stretch behind bars (for perjury) and you've got perfect source material for Wanted (St. Martin's), her novel about Diane Wellman, a young Texas policewoman who winds up in the pen after being framed for possession. In short order she busts out with her cell mate, repentant political radical Gail Rubin, and they're on the run, fussing and arguing every step of the way. Wanted rings true when cops are in the scene—talking, working, even just goofing around. But Rubin and Wellman on the lam are a dreary duo, and they numb the reader long before Wozencraft's well-crafted surprise ending.

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