Книгата е по сериала Stranger Things (Странни неща) и разказва за живота на шериф Джим Хопър преди Хоукинс, когато е живял със съпругата си и дъщеря си в Ню Йорк Сити.

His last big case before everything changed…

Hawkins 1984
All chief Jim Hopper wants is a quiet first Christmas with his adopted daughter, but when Eleven finds a cardboard box marked “New York”, the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins? What does Vietnam mean? And why has he never talked about New York?

New York City 1977
Returning from Vietnam to his young family and the a beat as an NYPD detective, Hopper soon sleeps back into civilian life. But after Shay Federal agent show up and see files about a string of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper goes undercover to search for the truth.