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The Known Dead Donald Harstad

The Known Dead By Donald Harstad

The Known Dead by Donald Harstad


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Summary

The second fast paced quirky police procedural thriller by former Deputy Sheriff Don Harstad, following the success of Eleven Days. This time Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is on the trail of the leader of a splinter group of US extreme right-wing terrorists causing mayhem in Nation County, Iowa.

The Known Dead Summary

The Known Dead by Donald Harstad

The second fast paced quirky police procedural thriller by former Deputy Sheriff Don Harstad, following the success of Eleven Days. This time Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is on the trail of the leader of a splinter group of US extreme right-wing terrorists causing mayhem in Nation County, Iowa.

A routine surveillance of a marijuana patch in a state park in Nation County, Iowa suddenly turns into a shoot-out resulting in one police officer and one old doper dead. As Deputy Sheriff Houseman embarks on a search for the killers, a 911 emergency call comes in from the Stritch farm where shots have been fired and help is needed fast. A hostage situation develops as Stritch and his family are holed up on their farm. When they are finally forced out at gunpoint, two suspects, both armed, have escaped across the cornfields and at the farm a huge weapons cache is discovered.

Suddenly Carl Houseman, FBI agent Hester Gorse, and all the highly individual characters that made Eleven Days so entertaining, find themselves on the trail of a splinter group of right wing extremists whose training exercise was disturbed by a routine marijuana surveillance.

The Known Dead Reviews

'Harstad's books are terrific and really capture the atmosphere of small-town America, where the twentieth century almost seems to have slipped by unnoticed.' Independent on Sunday

'Harstad's first-hand experience ensures his storytelling always rings true.' Arena

'The Big Thaw, set in the dead of winter in a Fargo-like mid-west, is American procedural writing at its best.' Guardian

About Donald Harstad

Don Harstad worked in a mailroom at Columbia TV following service in Vietnam and then in 1974 became a patrol officer, then an investigator, and later Deputy Sheriff of Clayton County, Iowa. He retired in 1996 following a heart attack.

Additional information

GOR001683562
9781841154541
1841154547
The Known Dead by Donald Harstad
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20000803
384
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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