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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.” Read more...
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