Cry Dance - A Novel

Zusatztext "Tony Hillerman! watch your back....Mitchell knows his turf and delivers a savory  whodunit without remorse." -- People "Nail-bitingly intense...A breathless page-turner...with memorable Native American myths and an outdoorsman's respect for the Southwest's brutal beauty." -- Kirkus Reviews "Plenty of strenuous treks through rugged terrain...What a great guy to keep around..." -- The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Kirk Mitchell has written fifteen original novels and penned numerous blockbuster movie tie-ins, including Lethal Weapon and Backdraft , under the pseudonym of Joel Norst. In 1996, his ecological thriller High Desert Malice was an Edgar Mystery Award finalist. The descendant of California pioneers, Mitchell graduated magna cum laude in English from the University of Redlands. Prior to becoming a full-time writer in 1983, he served in law enforcement as a deputy sheriff in Indian country and a metropolitan SWAT sergeant. He lives in northern California. Klappentext If there's one thing Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmet Quanah Parker knows, it's that the dead don't always stay dead. With him he carries the ghosts of a partner killed in action, three failed marriages, and a long affair with the bottle. And now he's about to face the most dangerous case of his career--one that begins with a body that doesn't stay buried. Brutally murdered and bizarrely mutilated, a woman's corpse is discovered on Havasupai Nation land. Parker is paired with FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed in a hastily assembled task force of two. The two share a mixed Native American ancestry...and little else. As they are pulled deeper into a complex case, Parker suspects they are being led--like Custer into Little Bighorn--into a killer's trap, with Anna the bait and Parker himself the quarry. At the heart of it are the dead, with history the most lethal weapon of all...."You the BIA guy from Phoenix?" The Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Department of the Interior. In the last century, the same inflection would have been reserved for the cavalry. Emmett Parker had just locked up his government sedan and was studying the crudely painted sign at the trailhead on Hualapai Hilltop: ENTERING THE SOVEREIGN NATION OF THE HAVASUPAI "You Investigator Parker?" Still silent, Emmett glanced skyward. The snow was coming down harder than it had in Prescott, where he'd grabbed a late breakfast while having his tires chained up. A soft, wet snow was falling all over northern Arizona. Lowering his gaze, he studied the vehicle tracks, not his own, that showed a U-turn in the slush. Boot prints were evident too, two sets. One was small enough to belong to a juvenile. On the way in along Indian Route 18, he'd noted the passing of only three other vehicles. A power company repair van. Then a Forest Service truck. The female employee driving it looked slight enough to have left the smaller prints. And finally, about ten miles back, a 1981 Ford station wagon with two figures seated up front. Their ages and sex had been obscured by the snowmelt the wagon's tires had thrown against Emmett's windshield. Turning, he finally examined the Havasupai tribal cop. In his early twenties, the man had a scraggly beard. His straight black hair had been painstakingly coaxed into dreadlocks, and pinned to his khaki uniform shirt was a cameo of Haile Selassie. Pai youth turning to Rastafarianism. Emmett decided not to ask the young cop about it for the moment. He was back on Indian time again: Everything revealed in its own season. "Yeah, I'm Parker." "Billy Topocoba. Ready for this?" "Sure," Emmett said, flipping his parka hood up over his own raven-colored hair. He still had it cut boarding-school style--scalp showing through the stubbled sides of his head. ...

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• Autoren: Kirk Mitchell
• Verlag: Bantam Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.07.2000
• EAN: 9780553579147
• ISBN: 978-0-553-57914-7
• Seiten: 341
• Abmessung: 108 mm x 178 mm x 25 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung