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DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
By: Adam Christopher
Stranger Things
Del Rey
June 2019
On Sale: May 28, 2019
384 pages
ISBN: 1984819062
EAN: 9781984819062
Kindle: B07K5ZZ3X3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopperโs protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked โNew Yorkโ out of the basementโand the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins all those years ago? What does โVietnamโ mean? And why has he never talked about New York? Although heโd rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about his own past, Hopper knows that he canโt deny the truth any longer. And so begins the story of the incident in New Yorkโthe last big case before everything changed. . . . Summer, New York City, 1977. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show up and seize the files about a series of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth. Soon Hopper is undercover among New Yorkโs notorious street gangs. But just as heโs about to crack the case, a blackout rolls across the boroughs, plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any heโs faced before.
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