A Hard Rain

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Author:	Dean Wesley Smith
Publisher:	Pocket Books
Series:	Pocket TNG
Published:	March 2002
Pages:	233
Year:	2370s
Reference #:	ISBN 074341926X

A crisis for Captain Picard -- or a case for Dixon Hill, private detective?

Summary

From the book jacket

Captain Jean-Luc Picard has long enjoyed playing the part of Dixon Hill, a hard-boiled private eye straight out of American pulp fiction. His holographic excursions into 1940s San Francisco, a colorful world of gunplay and gangsters, provide a welcome diversion from his hefty responsibilities as a Starfleet captain.

But not this time.

The starship Enterprise has lost power and control, its own momentum carrying it ever deeper into a dangerous zone of warped space and time. And the only way out is hidden somewhere in the mean streets and back alleys of old Frisco. But so is a cold-blooded murderer....

Now Dixon Hill, alias Jean-Luc Picard, must get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that threatens the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise!

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Background

• Novel based upon the TNG episode "The Big Goodbye".

Characters

Jean-Luc Picard

Enterprise-E captain.

Beverly Crusher

Enterprise-E CMO.

Data

Enterprise-E Lieutenant commander

Geordi La Forge

Enterprise-E Chief Engineer

Bell

Ghost Johnson

Shoe

Joe "the Undertaker" Morgan

Arnie Andrews

Redblock

Barringer

Mr. Whelan

Enterprise-D Officer

Mr. Evans

Enterprise-D Officer

References

holodeck, San Francisco

Timeline

• 1940s
• 2370s

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