The dark wind
By: Tony Hillerman.
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780061000034
Subjects: Police -- Southwest, New -- Fiction; Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Southwest, New -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. Annotation. A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.