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Joe Kurtz

Segui il viaggio di un ex investigatore privato ed ex detenuto che naviga nel crudo panorama di Buffalo, New York. Questa serie si addentra nel lato oscuro della vita ai margini, dove il protagonista lotta con il suo passato e cerca una forma di redenzione. Aspettati una narrazione avvincente ricca di incontri pericolosi, ambiguità morali e colpi di scena inaspettati. È una lettura imperdibile per i fan della narrativa poliziesca hard-boiled con un antieroe complesso.

Krutá hra. Kruté mrazy. Krutý osud (jeden svazek)
Hard Freeze
Hard As Nails. A Joe Kurtz Novel
Hardcase

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. 1

    Hardcase

    • 272pagine
    • 10 ore di lettura

    Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant--a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose. But someone doesn't want the accountant found--and with enemies inside the Family vying for his throne, and turf warfare just around the corner, Farino needs an outsider like Kurtz to flush out who's really behind this latest affront. As the story twists and turns and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust. Everyone seems to be after something, from the mob boss's sultry yet dangerous daughter, to a hit man named The Dane, an albino killer who is good with a knife, and a dwarf who is armed to the teeth and hell-bent on revenge. Kurtz has always been an ace investigator. Now he's about to discover that to get at the truth, sometimes you have to go after it--hard.

    Hardcase
  2. 2

    Hard Freeze

    A Joe Kurtz Novel

    • 320pagine
    • 12 ore di lettura

    A Reason to Kill... Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But his years in Attica for snuffing the mob killers of his beautiful partner didn't make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets, he's already marked by a local Mafia don with unfinished business. A Reason to Live... If watching his back wasn't enough, Kurtz has been hired by gravely ill John Frears whose daughter met a grisly fate at the hands of a child-murderer. Frears wants one thing before he dies: for Kurtz to find the fiend that the authorities couldn't. But the calculating killer-a master at changing identities-has a little unfinished business of his own. A Reason to Die... Dodging a contract on his head, and tracking a serial killer on the loose, Kurtz is plunging headfirst into the icy waters of revenge-as both victim and private avenger. It's going to be a tough winter in Buffalo for Joe Kurtz-cold enough to freeze the blood.

    Hard Freeze
  • Dan Simmons vzdává hold detektivkám americké drsné školy a daří se mu to na jedničku. Nijak nepolevuje v tempu a svého hrdinu skutečně nenechá ani na chvíli vydechnout. Joe Kurtz býval soukromý detektiv – než se rozhodl vzít spravedlnost do vlastních rukou a brutálně pomstít vraždu své partnerky. Když se po jedenácti letech vězení vrací do Buffala, nemůže být o obnovení licence ani řeč, přesto se najdou jistí lidé, kteří jsou ochotní ho najmout a využívat jeho služeb načerno…

    Krutá hra. Kruté mrazy. Krutý osud (jeden svazek)