Hardcase

Award-winning author Dan Simmons takes the reader on a trip with Kurtz through the cold, windy streets of Buffalo where one wrong move could mean a belly-full of lead. Once Joe Kurtz needed revengeand revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, don of a mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtzs help to track down the familys missing accountanta man with too much knowledge of family business to have on the loose. But someone doesnt want the accountant foundand with enemies inside the family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out whos really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob bosss sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, to a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now hes about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after ithard.