- Fiction, Navajo Indians, Police, Jim Chee (Fictitious character)
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?
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Tony Hillerman
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 293
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Harper & Row, Lian pu chu ban
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780060769413
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“It was a job which required waiting for cultures to grow, for toxins to develop, for antibodies to form, for reagents to react.”
Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as theatrical and television movies.
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