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Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers when a body is found in the center of town Its Barney Kissick the local heroin dealer and the city police see it as an occupational hazard But when Barneys mother Shifty asks Mick to take a look he finds theres more to the killing than it seems Mick should be rehabbing his leg signing his divorce papers and getting out of townand most of all staying out of the way of his sisters reelection as Sheriffbut he keeps on looking and suddenly hes getting shot at himself A dark pacy crime novel about grief and revenge and the surprises hidden below the surface Shiftys Boys is a tour de force that confirms Mick Hardin as one of the most appealing new investigators in fiction