The First Eagle
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Descripción editorial
When Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee catches a Hopi man huddled over the bloodied body of a young Navajo Tribal Police officer, it looks like an open-and-shut case until Joe Leaphorn shows up. Now retired from the Navajo PD, he's been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist who vanished from the remote area the day the cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or a victim? And what are Chee and Leaphorn to make of the report that a skinwalker-a Navajo witch- was seen in the area at the time? In an ingeniously plotted tale that combines treachery, Native American lore, and the most virulent plague outbreak since the Middle Ages,The First Eagle is Hillerman at his storytelling best.
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The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillerman's 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee. Bubonic plague has survived for centuries in the prairie-dog villages of the Southwest, where its continuing adaptation to modern antibiotics has increased its potential for mass destruction. Leaphorn is hired by a wealthy Santa Fe woman to search for her granddaughter, biologist Catherine Pollard, who has disappeared during her field work as a "flea catcher," collecting plague-carrying specimens from desert rodents. At the same time, Jim Chee arrests Robert Jano, a young Hopi man and known poacher of eagles, in the bludgeoning death of another Navajo Police officer at a site where the biologist was seen working. As Leaphorn learns more about Pollard's work from her boss in the Indian Health Service and an epidemiologist with ties to a pharmaceutical company, the U.S. Attorney's office decides to seek the death penalty against Jano, who is being represented by Chee's former fiancee, Janet Pete, recently returned from Washington, D.C. 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 as Chee, an aspiring shaman, is driven to choose between his career and his commitment to the ways of his people, and Leaphorn moves into a deeper friendship with ethnology professor, Louisa Bourebonette. Author tour. FYI: Simultaneous release by HarperAudio in abridged ($25 X) and unabridged ( ) editions.
