A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. Annotation. A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.
- ISBN10 0061000035
- ISBN13 9780061000034
- Publish Date 25 January 1990 (first published 1 January 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 6 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperPaperbacks
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English