I have read the book. I do not know for sure but I would bet that Mr. Stratton had nothing to do with this book.
Why?
Because I knew him in prison and he never ever had an original thought in his life..ever.

How powerful. It re-questions me how to be myself as a human being in reality. What is freedom, what is a life, what is "the time"? It keeps questioning me without elicit answer that I must have been seeking by myself.

I had searched and searched for movies that would expand my imagination and give me some sort of hope for tomorrow that there are people that still strive to make quality movies and write quality books. Thsi is definitely one of them. I read the book and then I saw the movie that went far beyond my expectations. What a sensory pleasure.

A well written book. The author does a very good job of relating the turmoil and confusion most of us face in our lives every day. The only thing that detracted from the book for me was the focus. With the wife of the smuggler as the protagonist, you end up seeing the seeing the smuggler as a victim. The view that an otherwise law abiding person whose only fault is that he smuggles relatively benign illicit substances by the TON, is still a good person flabbergasts me. Yet every day I meet people who would be completely won over by this argument. I understand real life is not black and white, but I seldom read for a representation of real life ;)

Annie is married to a big-time marijuana smuggler, Kurt. A former drug user herself, they now have two small children and have etched out a life for themselves in upstate New York. She wants him to quit the business, but he is addicted to the adventure. This is big-time stuff, 10 tons or more, and the risks are high. The law is after him and the penalty is life imprisonment without parole. The plot moved swiftly and caught me up in the drama of their lives.

If I have any criticism, it is that there are a few too many loving family scenes, but perhaps this was necessary given the nature of the situation. After all, this book actually humanizes drug dealers.

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.

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.

Notes From The Country Club by Kim Wozencraft -- written in 1993, this is a novel about a woman who eventually kills her abusive husband. The book opens with the reader finding her in the psychiatric evaluation section of a Texas jail. For about 2/3s of the book, Wozencraft did a good job of creating characters, a sense of mind and a sense of place. However, about the last 30-40 pages of the book were given over to polemnical-type statements/rants of paragraph-length coming from the characters. It was really tiresome and boring at that point. Part of the problem may be that what was news in 1993 no longer is vis-a-vis battered women. The other problem is stepping away from the character and deciding the reader needed some learnin' and doing it through lecturing the reader.