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