Books, Arts & Manners: Turmoil in Texas

Rush, by Kim Wozencraft (Random House, 272 pp., $18.95)

WHEN Kristen Cates, the narrator of Rush, gets the chance to move from waiting on tables in an ice-cream parlor in a Houston mall to working for a suburban police force, life starts looking better. When she’s assigned to a narcotics unit under Captain Jim Raynor, a tough young veteran, later her lover, life looks better yet. And when she realizes that her job requires her, in order to preserve her cover, to use the drugs she buys along with the dealers she buys them from, life looks best of all.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Rush, by Kim Wozencraft (Random House, 272 pp., $18.95)

WHEN Kristen Cates, the narrator of Rush, gets the chance to move from waiting on tables in an ice-cream parlor in a Houston mall to working for a suburban police force, life starts looking better. When she’s assigned to a narcotics unit under Captain Jim Raynor, a tough young veteran, later her lover, life looks better yet. And when she realizes that her job requires her, in order to preserve her cover, to use the drugs she buys along with the dealers she buys them from, life looks best of all.