Pocket-47

by Jude Hardin

Overview

Fifteen-year-old Brittney Ryan has taken to the streets. Leitha, her older sister and legal guardian, hires private investigator Nicholas Colt to find her and bring her home. Piece of cake, Colt thinks. With Brittney's forbidden boyfriend's address in hand, he plans to make a surprise visit and put this one in the scrapbook. But something more sinister is behind Brittney's disappearance, and Colt soon finds himself in an ever-widening maze of deceit, betrayal, and murder. When Colt learns what the mysterious phrase Pocket-47 means, he is haunted even more by the plane crash that killed his family and rock band twenty years ago-a crash he now realizes might not have been an accident. Determined to save Brittney, Colt struggles to untangle the threads of his own tortured past. Unfortunately, one of the most heinous and violent criminals in modern history has other ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608090853
Publisher:	Oceanview Publishing
Publication date:	04/16/2013
Series:	Nicholas Colt Series , #1
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jude Hardin graduated from the University of Louisville with an English degree, and currently lives in northeast Florida. When he's not pounding away at the computer keyboard, Jude can be found pounding away on his drums, playing tennis, reading, or down at the pond fishing with his son.

Editorial Reviews

“Hardin gets everything right in his powerhouse thriller debut, which introduces rock star–turned–PI Nicholas Colt..."

— Publishers Weekly

" Pocket-47 sucked me in and held me enthralled. Author Jude Hardin keeps the pace frantic, the thrills non-stop, but best of all is his hero, the wonderfully ironic Nicholas Colt. This is a character I'm eager to follow through many adventures to come."

— Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles Novels

" Pocket-47 is a thoroughly engaging, nonstop slay ride."

— Leighton Gage, author of Dying Gasp

"Jude Hardin is a terrific writer and Nicholas Colt is a great character, tough, vulnerable, but with a courageous heart. He's perfectly capable of holding his own in the pantheon of great PI's—Spenser, Elvis Cole, Travis McGee, and now Nicholas Colt."

— Mark Terry, author of The Valley of Shadows

"Jude Hardin’s Pocket-47 is a tough, gritty slice of Florida Noir that keeps you guessing all the way to the finish. His washed up rock-star-turned-scuffling-PI Nicholas Colt is a dark but righteous avenger who’s right up there alongside Travis McGee and Dave Robicheaux in the pantheon of bad-ass antiheroes. Check it out—you’ll be glad you did."

— J. D. Rhoades, author of Breaking Cover

"In a genre that is about voice, Jude Hardin has created a P.I. with a philosophy and sly cynical wit all his own. Plenty of bad guys and action ... but front and center is new hero, Nicholas Colt."

— Erica Orloff, author of The Roofer

From the Publisher

"In a genre that is about voice, Jude Hardin has created a P.I. with a philosophy and sly cynical wit all his own. Plenty of bad guys and action...but front and center is new hero, Nicholas Colt."

—Erica Orloff, author of The Roofer

author of The Roofer Erica Orloff

Hardin gets everything right in his powerhouse thriller debut, which introduces rock star–turned–PI Nicholas Colt. The sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone in his band as well as his wife and baby daughter 20-some years earlier, Colt now works out of an SUV in north Florida. Strapped for cash, he agrees to help 23-year-old Leitha Ryan track down her missing 15-year-old sister, Brittney. Leitha is reluctant to involve the police out of fear that they will return Brittney to foster care. What appears to be a straightforward case proves to be anything but. Colt uncovers several murders as it becomes clear that Brittney disappeared in order to hide from someone who wants to kill her. The violence, while sometimes extreme, is never gratuitous, and Hardin crafts a well-constructed plot and conjures up a flawed protagonist who's more than capable of carrying a series. (May)

Publishers Weekly