REVIEWS

• 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 best-selling author of Ice Cold

• 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.

  - Publishers Weekly

• 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
• Colt isn’t afraid to put himself at risk to achieve his goals… As he prepares for the ultimate confrontation, he relishes the opportunity to shed some blood in the name of revenge:
  ‘I wanted to find the armory and load up on some firepower. I wanted to blow some shit up. The B movie I seemed to be stuck in should have a blazing molten-hot spectacular ending.’
  If those three sentences alone don’t send you running to purchase this book, check your pulse. I hope we haven’t seen the last of Nicholas Colt.
  - Ed Irvin, a Florida Book Review Contributing Editor