That Human Fear: A Cold Poker Gang Story: Cold Poker Gang

By Dean Wesley Smith

The Cold Poker Gang, a task force of retired Las Vegas detectives that meet once a week to play a little poker and work on solving cold cases given to them by the Chief of Police.

Retired Detectives Pickett and Sarge solved an eight-year-old cold case, but while doing so, they faced one of the most common human fears.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201387280

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

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That Human Fear

That Human Fear

A Cold Poker Gang Story

Dean Wesley Smith

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That Human Fear

A Cold Poker Gang Story

October 26 th, 2017

Retired Detective Debra Pickett stood in the shade of a tall rough-stone wall and watched a five-person forensics crew in white protective suits dig up a grave. Not exactly what she had hoped to do before breakfast this morning.

The Las Vegas sun was barely in the sky and already warm for such an early morning in October. Pickett was glad