The bitter past / Bruce Borgos.
"Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he was killed and clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age. If that wasn't strange enough, a current FBI agent shows up to help Beck's investigation. In a case that unfolds in the past (the 1950s) and the present, it seems that a Russian spy infiltrated the nuclear testing site and now someone is looking for that long-ago, all-but forgotten person, who holds the key to what happened then and to the deadly goings on now." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250848079
- ISBN: 1250848075
- Physical Description: 308 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2023.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Mars Hill Library | FIC BOR PB1 (Text) | 30229101369659 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | F BOR (Text) | 80605000637461 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bath Community Library | FIC (Text) | 38344101732749 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | F BOR (Text) | 0020660103415 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bunn Branch | F/Borgos (Text) | 72350000126739 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | F BORGOS (Text) | 22281500155235 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Corolla Library | F BOR (Text) | 39488600178083 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | F BORGOS (Text) | 31781067772523 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Denton Public Library | F BOR (Text) | 25908008317120 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Eden Library | Fic (Text) | 31554010977444 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
"Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. He was brutally tortured before he was killed and clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age. If that wasn't strange enough, a current FBI agent shows up to help Beck's investigation. In a case that unfolds in the past (the 1950s) and the present, it seems that a Russian spy infiltrated the nuclear testing site and now someone is looking for that long-ago, all-but forgotten person, who holds the key to what happened then and to the deadly goings on now." --
