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Hard Town

by Adam Plantinga

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When a plea for help sends retired Detroit cop Kurt Argento to the small desert town of Fenton, Arizona things immediately don't appear to be as they seem, and he finds himself unraveling secrets that want to stay hidden and questioning his own moral compass. After having survived a deadly prison break, ex-Detroit cop Kurt Argento is ready for some quiet. Still working through his grief over the passing of his wife, Argento finds himself house-sitting for a friend with his loyal companion, Hudson, a Chow Chow-Shepard mix. It's a simple life, picking up odd jobs here and there, but it's one that Argento is content to live. Then Kristin Reed shows up with her young son, Ethan, and begs Argento to help find her missing husband... and Argento tells her he'd just be in the way.…

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"Hard Town by Adam Plantinga is the second book in a series featuring Kurt Argento, an extremely tough ex-cop from Detroit (the first, set in a high security prison, is The Ascent ). In Hard Town , he is housesitting for a friend near the Arizona desert, when a plea for help from a woman with a young child sucks him into a mysterious set-up involving ex-soldiers and a brilliant scientist."
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