Hard Freeze Library Edition - Joe Kurtz Author:Dan Simmons Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But the years he spent in Attica prison didn t make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets of Buffalo, he s already marked by a local Mafia don.As if watching his back weren t enough work, Kurtz has also been hired by a gravely ill John Frears, whose daughter met a grisly f... more »ate at the hands of a 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. Dodging a contract on his head and tracking a serial killer on the loose, Kurtz plunges headfirst into the icy waters of revenge as both victim and avenger."« less