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“THE TOUGHEST, DARKEST 'HERO' IN
Award-winning author Dan Simmons takes the reader on a tripCRIME FICTION SINCE PARKER.” —Denver Post SOMETIMES REVENGE IS BEST PAID IN COLD STEEL... “A HARDCORE FULL-TILT ROCKET RIDE.” —Rocky Mountain News with Joe Kurtz through the cold, windy streets of Buffalo, New York, where one wrong move could mean a bellyful of lead...
“A CINEMATIC STORY.”
Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge—and revenge cost him eleven—Chicago Tribune years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of tough, out of prison, and with only one friend in the world, Kurtz signs on with the Farinos, a Mob family who has a problem in its own backyard. The Farinos don't know it yet, but they have a bigger problem in Kurtz himself.
“DAN SIMMONS IS BRILLIANT.”
Searching for a mob accountant gone missing, Kurtz starts—DEAN KOONTZ rubbing the wrong people the wrong way for all the right reasons. Within forty-eight hours he's got two low-rent, high-impact killers on his trail, a beautiful, ruthless woman in his bed, a legendary hit man flying in from Denmark, and the wreckage of his past falling down around him. As Kurtz keeps pushing into the shadows of a chaotic underworld, he turns up killers, freaks, traitors, and madmen. And the final outcome will be the most devastating of all...
“When it comes to hard-boiled detective fiction, HARDCASE boils it on high. PI Joe Kurtz knows how to deliver a punch. And so does Dan Simmons.” —Jonathan Stone, author of The Heat of Lies - from the back cover -
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by Dan Simmons