The Dansing Star

Kirby Jonas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891423002 ISBN 13: 9781891423000

Publisher: Howling Wolf Publishing, 1997

From the Author:

A tale of suspense and intrigue and death in the desert!
Imagine yourself a nine-year-old white boy from Missouri, your parents killed by Indians. You have been sold to a band of Chiricahua Apaches, and through their love and kindness you have become a beloved member of their tribe. Then, when you have started a family of your own, your world as you know it once again comes to an end. White and Mexican militia come to your village, kill your wife and adopted family and steal your children. You are left alone. You return to the white world, the only place you have to go. This is what young James Morton faced at the age of 22. He had come to love his Apache people, and it is hard dealing with the whites again. They know he was raised by Apaches, and for that he is hated. James Morton decides to keep part of his Apache heritage, so he drops the James from his name and becomes Mort Dansing, using part of his Indian name, Dancing Star, in order to feel part of the red people. Now a Tucson, Arizona lawman more skilled than all the rest, Dansing's challenge is first to find four men who robbed the First National Bank, in Tucson, then to chase down the half-breed Mexican killer who murdered his best friend, Janice Hart. Mort Dansing soon finds himself in the desert surrounded by Apaches bent on seeing him dead, four hardened men, and a woman he cannot understand. Will he make it out of the Silverbell Mountains alive? "The Dansing Star" was recently chosen by one online bookstore as among one of its sixteen favorite books out of a catalog of two million!