Bøger af Donald Harstad

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....

En ukjent kilde, muligens en kvinne under femti, ringer County Communication: "Min Gud, min Gud, vær så snill hjelp oss her..". Den første som kommer til åstedet er assisterende sjeriff Carl Houseman. Han finner eieren av gården slaktet og lemlestet, men kvinnen er borte. Lenger nede i veien, i et annet isolert hus er det tre lik til, og alle har merker etter tortur og voldsom død. Assistert av en etterforsker med dysleksi, en frekk radioreporter og FBI spesialagent Hester Gorse, må Houseman innen 11 dager løse mysteriet som truer et lite bondesamfunn i Iowa.

What initally looks like a small time midwinter break-in, leads to something much bigger - a million dollar siege of a floating casino on the frozen Mississippi River. But the temperature is rising and the heat is on Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman...