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For acting Lieutenant Jim Chee, the murder of a Navajo Tribal Police officer seems like an open-and-shut case when he discovers a Hopi poacher huddled over the victim's butchered corpse. However, Chee's newly retired predecessor, Joe Leaphorn, believes otherwise.
Hired to find a missing biologist who was searching for the key to a virulent hidden plague--and who vanished in the same area and on the same day the policeman was slain--Leaphorn suspects both events are somehow connected. And the reported sighting of a "skinwalker"--a Navajo witch--has Leaphorn and Chee seeking answers to a deadly riddle in a dark place where superstition and science collide.
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Review:
Fascinating. --Dallas Morning News
Hillerman soars. --Boston Globe
"The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman's 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lt. Jim Chee... Hillerman"--Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating."--Dallas Morning News
"Hillerman's trademark melding of Navajo tradition and modern culture is captured with crystal clarity in this tale of an ancient scourge's resurgence in today's world. The uneasy mix of old ways and new is articulated with resonant depth...."--Publishers Weekly
"Tony Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller...Surrendering to Hillerman's strong narrative voice and supple storytelling techniques, we come to see that ancient cultures and modern sciences are simply different mythologies for the same reality."--New York Times Book Review
"Hillerman soars."--Boston Globe
Fascinating. --Dallas Morning News"
Hillerman soars. --Boston Globe"
Hillerman s trademark melding of Navajo tradition and modern culture is captured with crystal clarity in this tale of an ancient scourge s resurgence in today s world. The uneasy mix of old ways and new is articulated with resonant depth.... --Publishers Weekly"
Tony Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller...Surrendering to Hillerman s strong narrative voice and supple storytelling techniques, we come to see that ancient cultures and modern sciences are simply different mythologies for the same reality. --New York Times Book Review"
The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman s 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lt. Jim Chee... Hillerman --Publishers Weekly"
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Hillerman soars. --Boston Globe
"The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman's 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lt. Jim Chee... Hillerman"--Publishers Weekly
"Fascinating."--Dallas Morning News
"Hillerman's trademark melding of Navajo tradition and modern culture is captured with crystal clarity in this tale of an ancient scourge's resurgence in today's world. The uneasy mix of old ways and new is articulated with resonant depth...."--Publishers Weekly
"Tony Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller...Surrendering to Hillerman's strong narrative voice and supple storytelling techniques, we come to see that ancient cultures and modern sciences are simply different mythologies for the same reality."--New York Times Book Review
"Hillerman soars."--Boston Globe
Fascinating. --Dallas Morning News"
Hillerman soars. --Boston Globe"
Hillerman s trademark melding of Navajo tradition and modern culture is captured with crystal clarity in this tale of an ancient scourge s resurgence in today s world. The uneasy mix of old ways and new is articulated with resonant depth.... --Publishers Weekly"
Tony Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller...Surrendering to Hillerman s strong narrative voice and supple storytelling techniques, we come to see that ancient cultures and modern sciences are simply different mythologies for the same reality. --New York Times Book Review"
The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman s 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lt. Jim Chee... Hillerman --Publishers Weekly"
The plague that has decimated fourteenth century Europe appears to have returned today to the high dry lands of the American Soutwest. But Tony Hillerman’s famous pair of detectives, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, discover an even deadlier killer.
An eagle poacher is caught red-handed, huddled over the bloody body of a police officer. It seems an easy case. But the same day a biologist working on the plague scare, disappears from the area. The defence lawyer, who happens to be Jim Chee’s girlfriend, insists the accused is innocent and Joe Leaphorn’s investigation uncovers dangerous information on the modern developments of the black death.
Every Tony Hillerman novel is a joy to read and Leaphorn and Chee are a delight.
“The man is a master”
INDEPENDENT
“Tony Hillerman has placed a singular spin on the contemporary detective novel.”
BOSTON GLOBE
“'The First Eagle' displays all the strengths of Hillerman’s writing: a vivid sense of places, nuanced characters, and a complex, engrossing plot.”
WASHINGTON POST
“Tony Hillerman is a wonderful story teller which means you believe every word he says.”
NEW YORK TIMES
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0060192623
- ISBN 13 9780060192624
- BindingHardcover
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