Dead Bang

Art Hardin Mystery #3

by Robert E. Bailey

Private Detective Art Hardin's caseload does not usually involve AK47s, but when an Islamic terrorist group uses an unsuspecting family friend to smuggle money into the country and the money disappears, Art gets in deeper than ever before.

280 pages, Hardcover

First published December 13, 2006

About the author

Robert Bailey spent five years as a corporate security director in the city of Detroit and twenty years as a licensed private investigator. His first novel, PRIVATE HEAT, an action-packed private-eye thriller, won the Josiah W. Bancroft Award at the Florida First Coast Writer's Festival in 1998 and was nominated for the 2003 Shamus Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America.

A Vietnam-era draftee, he retired from the military as a reservist and a field-grade officer. An award-winning combat pistol shot, he returned to his first love, writing, when he was injured on the job and no longer able to work the street.

Reviews

[Nanci Ortwein · Rating 4 out of 5]

Confusing

Confusing read. Too many twists and turns and characters. I will try one more in the series. So we'll see

[Jeffrey Philips · Rating 3 out of 5]

This the third book in the Art Hardin's series. It's about terrorists and missing money. A good read.