Early one morning Jack jumps off a bus in the middle of nowhere and walks 14 miles down an empty country road. The minute he reaches the town of Margrave he is thrown into jail. As the only stranger in town, a local murder is blamed on him. However, it soon becomes clear that he is not the killer.
From the bestselling author of Coyote Waits, The First Eagle, and Skinwalkers comes an intimate, unvarnished memoir of his life, his writing, and his world.
Old Joseph Joe sees it all, Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks. This is enough to send Tribal Policeman Jim Chee after a killer . . . and on an odyssey of murder and revenge that moves from an Indian hogan and its trapped ghost, to the dark underbelly of L.A., to a healing ceremony whose cure could be death.
Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee, barred from following up on a multi-million dollar drug case, investigates a murder and a vandalism incident and finds that perhaps all three cases are part of the same pattern.
Officer Jim Chee is drawn into his Navajo heritage as he investigates the bizarre theft of a box of trinkets a theft that endangers his life as well as the life of a young schoolteacher.
