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"HARDCASE…is very tough, with a high body count…Simmons writes better than
most, and his ex-PI, Joe Kurtz, who tries to hold onto a semblance of ethics while
working for a semi-retired Mafia don, is an interesting character… there are some
nifty Chandleresque twists and some nicely done upstate New York scene layering."
—Boston Globe
"Numerous and varied storylines remain remarkably lucid as Simmons treats us to a
fast-paced thriller with excitement on every page."
—Otto Penzler, Penzler Pick, July 2001
"A writer who not only makes big promises, but keeps them."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Simmons cuts his prose to the bone and delivers the raw edge of humanity better
than almost anyone out there. Raymond Chandler would have liked to share a scotch
with Simmons. Even better if Joe Kurtz was at the bar."
—Keith Ablow, author of Denial and Projection
"Over the last decade, Simmons has shown himself to be one of the most versatile,
intelligent, and unpredictable novelists around."
 —Locus



Hardcase
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Copyright © 2001 by Dan Simmons.
Excerpt from Hard Freeze © 2002 by Dan Simmons.
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ISBN: 0-312-98016-7
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This book is for Richard Stark, who sometimes writes under the wussy pseudonym
of Donald Westlake.




CHAPTER 1