Known Dead: A Novel

Authors: Harstad, Donald
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC030000, FIC022020, FIC031010
ISBN: 9780307418173, Related ISBNs: 0307418170, 0385488955, 0553580957, 9780307418173, 9780385488952
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 400,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: In the American heartland, someone is killing cops.

The ambush exploded in an Iowa marijuana field. The weapons were high caliber. The pot was high grade. And the reporters said afterward: "We have two known dead...."

Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman knew the dead all right: One was a small-time doper, the other a good cop. But Houseman doesn't know why they died, or who cut them down in a blaze of automatic rifle fire. Now, as the Feds descend on Nation County, Houseman and his fellow cops are suddenly walking point--searching for answers amidst the violence, treachery, and evil in their own backyard....

Donald Harstad's Eleven Days was called "a hell of a first novel" by Michael Connelly and "truly frightening" by the San Francisco Chronicle. In his electrifying new novel Harstad captures with nerve-shattering power an Iowa police department's harrowing search through a killing storm--to know the truth about the dead and the living alike....
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