PROPOSITIONS THAT HARDMAN COULDN'T TURN DOWN First the cops gave Hardman's arm a nasty twist until he agreed to play the part of the hired gun to trap a stud with a big mouth and a bigger bankroll who was in the market for murder. Then a mild little man gave Hardman's income a giant boost when he hired the hard-nosed detective and his sidekick, Hump Evans, to track down a missing wife with a past that made Xaviera Hollander look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. From the moment the starting gun sounded, Hardman was off and running for his life after a non-stop killer. The trouble was, he kept stumbling over corpses, running into rock-hard violence, and heading straight for his own grave.... HARDMAN is a great new private eye for the shock-proof '70s. He plays the game by his own rules, and he plays for keeps. Don't miss his other explosive action-adventures in Popular Library editions.