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Dead Bang: An Art Hardin Mystery (Art Hardin Mysteries)

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Keeps you on your toes from start to finish. I love the characters and cannot wait for their next adventure. If you like the TV show 24 you will LOVE this book. I could not believe how Art never stopped. If he tried, there was always something around every corner trying to derail him.

Robert Bailey does it again! What a good read. I certainly enjoy the adventures that Art and Wendy find themselves in as they try to have a "normal" family life. I love the humor along with the mystery in Mr. Bailey's books. I am looking forward to more Art Hardin adventures.

Dead Bang is the third book in the Art Hardin series by Robert Bailey, and is clearly his best effort to date. Bailey has hit his stride with Dead Bang. This fast-paced book and will keep you on the edge of your seat while you keep turning the pages. The well-developed plot revolves around a friend of the Hardins duped into transporting money for terrorists, with an interesting sub-plot about a 30-year-old mob hit. Art and Wendy Hardin get involved and the bullets, as well as the one-liners, fly.

Robert Bailey has created a cast of characters that are believable, and have become old friends after having read the first two books. For Art Hardin, picture a mixture of Philip Marlowe and Archie Goodwin, married with teenaged children. Throw in a bit of the Continental OP by Dashiell Hammet and you'll find he's a mix of the hard-boiled private eye and the guy next door. In fact, the Hardins are the kind of people you might want to have living next door. Well, you will until the bad guys start shooting up the neighborhood anyway. In this story, Wendy comes into her own and the married couple becomes a team. The dialogue and the way they interact is believable and fun.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a fast-paced mystery/suspense/thriller and I eagerly await the next in the series.

This book is a terrific read: It has mystery, action, humor, page-turning pacing, complex interwoven plotlines, and an honest-to-God likeable hero who really could be the father of the boys next door, if said father was this smart, funny, cool, and down-to-earth Midwestern. If you like characters such as Lucas Davenport, Jack Reacher, Elvis Cole, and Joe Pike, I think you'll like Art Hardin.

Only in Art Hardin's world can a lunch with a reporter and picking up a friend from the airport result in such a wild ride of international intrigue and talk of mob cover ups. Bob Bailey's third installment in the Art Hardin series keeps you glued to to your seat the whole way as he cracks two cases involving international terrorism and a 30 year old suspected mob hit of possible informant.

Retired private detective and Shamus-nominated author Robert E. Bailey presents Dead Bang: An Art Hardin Mystery, featuring the return of hard-boiled gumshoe Art Hardin. When an Islamic terrorist group manipulates and unsuspecting friend of the family to smuggle money into the country - and the money vanishes - Art becomes involved in a murderous, terrorist plot of violence and revenge. An nonstop rush of excitement from cover to cover, Dead Bang is especially recommended for fans of two-fisted intrigue.

When you start reading Dead Bang, you won't stop until the smoke clears on the final page. Robert Bailey's talent for blending non-stop action with interesting plot twists and intriguing characters places him at the top of his craft. Art Hardin is a mystery lover's detective. He's no superman, but he always gets the job done. Bailey's career as a PI guarantees accuracy and detail that other authors just can't deliver. If you like a dose of reality with your thrillers then this is the book for you!

Got my book Monday, finished it Tuesday. A good book is a fast read and this was a very good book.

Author Robert Bailey brought Art and Wendy back to life one more time.

Mr. Bailey needs to sit down and give us more soon.

Here again I could not get to bed on time because this book held me tighter than meat in a tiger's claw. I did not want the book to end but I had things to do that my "better half" have been nagging me to complete. I can hardly wait for another book to get my blood pressure off the charts with. To finally have Windy and Art work together was "Great" and I look forward to reading them working together again. It took three days, to read the book, but between working and reading this book was a joy and I'll do it again. To Mr. Robert Bailey: "Keep up the good writing".