The First Eagle
Language: English
Chee Cultural Heritage Fiction General Indian Reservation Police Jim (Fictitious Character) Joe Leaphorn Lt. (Fictitious Character) Mystery & Detective Mystery fiction Navajo Indians Plague Police - Southwestern States Police Procedural
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: Sep 28, 2010
Description:
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.