Snowball in Hell is a bold, breath-taking, and brutal first hard hitting thriller by Roland Hopkins. It is set in postwar Boston circa 1945. Join the film noire, white knuckle ride of raw, rough private eye, Johnny Dark as he discovers the seamy side of the rich and famous, how they treat life, sex and death. It taulty paced, gusty action will keep you awake as the Darkman follows his shady leads from seedy Scollay Square to earthy Province town and up to the winter vacation fun of the country's first classy ski resorts of Stow, Vermont. A fast paced, jovial read, this book is a gritty shocker that introduces the possibility of the world's most heinous murderer, Adolf Hitler, succeeding in performing an impossible hoax on the Allies, by escaping to the United States with his wife and hiding out with US government help. This absorbing, page turning thriller finds gumshow Dark losing one ally after another until he's faced with committing cold-blooded murder.