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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Hard town
  name:
    name part: Plantinga, Adam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 307 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: When a plea for help sends retired Detroit cop Kurt Argento to the small desert town of Fenton, Arizona things immediately don't appear to be as they seem, and he finds himself unraveling secrets that want to stay hidden and questioning his own moral compass. After having survived a deadly prison break, ex-Detroit cop Kurt Argento is ready for some quiet. Still working through his grief over the passing of his wife, Argento finds himself house-sitting for a friend with his loyal companion, Hudson, a Chow Chow-Shepard mix. It's a simple life, picking up odd jobs here and there, but it's one that Argento is content to live. Then Kristin Reed shows up with her young son, Ethan, and begs Argento to help find her missing husband and Argento tells her he'd just be in the way. He's no investigator, not anymore. He's a handyman who fixes fences. But he's not one to ignore his gut feeling when something is wrong. After an attempt to talk with Kristin more in the next town over, just to find her and her son missing as well, Argento starts to notice that Fenton, Arizona is more than meets the eye. First there's the large, overly equipped public safety team complete with specialized tactics and sophisticated weaponry. Then there's the unusual financial boosting of failing small businesses by the U.S. government. And finally, there's one man with no name who seems to have control over this town in an unprecedented way. Argento finds himself unraveling not just the truth behind the disappearance of a family, but a conspiracy that's taken a whole town to cover up. But Fenton, Arizona is going to push him further than he's ever had to go. And along the way, he may just lose a part of himself as well. Because justice isn't as black and white as Argento would like to believe.
  target audience: adult
  note: Adam Plantinga.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-az
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Fictitious character)
      name part: Argento, Kurt
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Ex-police officers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Widowers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Missing persons
    topic: Investigation
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Arizona
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3616.L366 H37 2025
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781538739907
  identifier: 1538739909
  identifier: 9781538739921
  identifier: 9781538739914
  identifier: 1538739917
  identifier: 2024046319
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241004
    record change date: 20260518182410.9
    record identifier: in00005695698