The First Eagle: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel [Paperback]

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The First Eagle?displays all the strengths of Hillermans writing: a vivid sense of place, nuanced characters, and a complex, engrossing plot.???Washington Post

The thirteenth novel in the Leaphorn and Chee series fromNew York Timesbestselling author Tony Hillerman, a landmark of Native American crime fiction.

When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut caseuntil his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hotheaded female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or another victim? And what about a report that a skinwalkera Navajo witchwas seen at the same time and place too? For Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a captivating cultural mystery where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide.

The modern resurgence of the black death animates Hillermans 14th tale featuring retired widower Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Acting Lt. Jim Chee... Hillerman -Publishers Weekly

Complex, engrossing...On their own, [Leaphorn and Chee] are compelling; as a duo they're the best since Lennon and McCartney. -Washington Post Book World

Fascinating. -Dallas Morning News

“Hillerman soars.” -Boston Globe

“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 unl“X