Known Dead: A Novel - Hardcover

Harstad, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385488955 ISBN 13: 9780385488952

Publisher: Doubleday, 1999

Synopsis

Answering a desperate call for "officer needs assistance," Carl Houseman, Deputy Sheriff of Nation County, Iowa, walks into the middle of a war zone in an isolated region of his territory, where he finds himself alone, with backup far away and two people already dead. By the author of Eleven Days.

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Review:

‘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

From the Back Cover:

'My name is Carl Houseman. I'm a deputy sheriff in Nation County, Iowa. I'm also the department's senior investigator, and senior officer, to boot. I'd like to tell you about the killings we had in our county in the summer of '96, and the subsequent investigation that stood the whole state on its ear. This is my version of what happened. It's the right one.'

Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman, laconic hero of the bestselling Eleven Days, returns to narrate another fast-paced, quirky, police procedural thriller in his own inimitable voice.

A routine surveillance of a marijuana patch in a state park suddenly erupts into a shoot-out, leaving a police officer and an old doper dead. As the search gets under way for the killers, an emergency call comes in from a nearby farm where shots have been fired and help is needed fast. As two armed suspects escape across the cornfields, a huge weapons cache is discovered and a hostage situation develops, Houseman finds himself up against a splinter group of right-wing extremists...and a rising number of the known dead.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385488955
• ISBN 13: 9780385488952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 323