Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town

<p><b>Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City confronting his past before the events of the hit show <i>Stranger Things</i>. </b><br><b><br>Christmas Hawkins 1984.</b> All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper&#146;s protests she pulls a cardboard box marked &#147;New York&#148; out of the basement&#151;and the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins all those years ago? What does &#147;Vietnam&#148; mean? And why has he never talked about New York?<br><br>Although he&#146;d rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about his own past Hopper knows that he can&#146;t deny the truth any longer. And so begins the story of the incident in New York&#151;the last big case before everything changed&#133;<br><br><b>Summer New York City 1977</b>. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter a caring wife and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show and seize the files about a series of brutal unsolved murders Hopper takes matters into his own hands risking everything to discover the truth.<br><br>Soon Hopper is undercover among New York&#146;s notorious street gangs. But just as he's about to crack the case a blackout rolls across the boroughs plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any he&#146;s faced before.</p>