Adam Plantinga

Police Sgt. USA Today bestselling author of The Ascent and Hard Town, @GrandCentralPub. Dark Country out 10/27/26. Father, husband, footspeed of Douglas fir.

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My older daughter regularly wins at family games of Clue. I find this disconcerting because I have 20 years of experience investigating violent felonies whereas she is 11.

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@Cheryl05795237 Thanks, much appreciated!

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Freedom isn't free. Here's to all who have served so that we may be free.

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@Brandon93Smith Yeah, you probably won't make it. Can I have your twitter when you pass, I need a backup account

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Had a great hang last night at the esteemed Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale AZ with Barbara Peters and debut author Matt Aldrich whose book The Natural Order is outstanding. The fact that I don't have a picture of this event readily available is part of a longer, difficult conversation I'll need to have with my social media team, some of whom have been coasting for far too long. Making matters even more awkward is the fact that I alone make up my social media team.

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@Cat_Victim There are some solid weapon retention techniques you learn. We also now have more advanced holsters where a suspect can't simply undo a thumb clasp and try for your sidearm.

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In my 25 year police career, I've made, if memory serves, 4 arrests while off-duty:
1. A drunk driver who crashed and tried to wander away.
2. A paranoid man on drugs who jumped into a senior citizen's car and made him drive to escape unseen enemies. The citizen ended up pulling over in front of my police station where I happened to be standing after my shift because my car was in the shop and I was waiting for the bus. I grabbed the suspect who later tried to take the gun of one of the cops inside.
3. A man who made death threats to a woman on public transport. Turned out to be more of a mental health matter.
4. An auto burglar who broke into a car right in front of me.
I don't know if these 4 arrests are high or low or about average. I just know that while the prevailing police wisdom that you should just be a good witness while off-duty is sound because you don't have your radio or vest or backup, sometimes you choose to go off-script and take police action anyway. But I was younger then and my knees worked better.

Aw hell, I'd probably still do all the same things again today. I hate crime.

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@jasonallison76 Well, hell, Allison, we can't all stop crime simply with a piercing stare like you can so sometimes a fella has to go hands on.

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@HumanCynicToday 3 out of the 4 of them were.

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@LindaCastillo11 Sorry, how frustrating.

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@Cheryl05795237 Hey, I'll check it out-thanks!

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@MartinKaste I'd say don't worry about it. You ain't missing much.

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I'm writing my 4th Kurt Argento book on an old laptop. Typing an ‘o’ requires me to pound the keyboard like I’m driving a stake in the ground, and the 9 key works 30% of the time. No authr (I didn’t have the energy 2 spell it right) has ever suffered this much adversity. It is a prfile in curage.

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One day I will write a Twitter post that will usher in a new dawn of enlightenment and unite the people in a spirit of peace and harmony but until then, here’s a picture of an old boot.

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@1clear_sky I think there's some of that for sure and then also 15% maybe this guy is having bowel trouble.

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Do you like books and Arizona and poison? Talented author Matthew Aldrich and I will be at the legendary Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale AZ this Monday for an author chat. If you're in the neighborhood, stop on by.

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Author Robert Swartwood was kind enough to have me on his program the other day. We talked books and then some.

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@vincethompson Thanks man!

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Kurt Argento finds himself shielding a teenage boy caught up in a manhunt in DARK COUNTRY, the third installment in @AdamPlantinga’s series featuring the former Detroit cop.

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Don’t miss our review!
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[Alice Mills @millsalice144]

My dreams of being a poet vanished like a thing in a whatever.