The Known Dead

The Known Dead

by Donald Harstad (Author)

Synopsis

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 an old doper dead. The second police procedural thriller by the author of Eleven Days .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 03 Aug 2000

ISBN 10: 1841154547
ISBN 13: 9781841154541

Media 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
Author Bio
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.