People of Darkness
About this book
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.An assassin waits for Officer Jim Chee in the desert to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed by blood.Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest. But there, out in the Bad Country, a lone assassin waits for Chee to come seeking answers, waits ready and willing to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed in blood.
Subjects
- arizona, fiction
- chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction
- detective and mystery stories
- fiction
- fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- fiction, thrillers, suspense
- fiction, westerns
- indians of north america
- indians of north america, fiction
- jim chee (fictitious character)
- large type books
- mystery
- navajo indian reservation, fiction
- navajo indians
- police
- southwestern states, fiction