- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Dutton (Oct 31 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525940731
- ISBN-13: 978-0525940739
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 16.9 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #841,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
After Billy Keene sees a dead body and a suitcase fall from the sky in rural New Mexico, he and his hunting buddy Will Striker, both of them half-Cherokee, decide to keep the $850,000 they find in the suitcase?and so begins Owens's solemn and surely told third Native American crime thriller (after Bone Game, 1994). Immediately, the two friends are attacked from above by a helicopter, which they shoot down in a brief battle. They try to hide the money along with any evidence of the shoot-out, but soon the local sheriff informs them of an impending investigation. Their task grows even more difficult when Billy begins a romance with a beautiful, mysterious Native American woman, and when Billy's elderly grandfather?who attempts to call on ancient Native American forces to extricate the friends from their predicament?disappears from the family ranch. After a local drug dealer comes calling to recover the cash, a series of violent confrontations erupts. Owens handles Billy and Will's romantic difficulties with compassion, adding resonance to a well-wrought thriller capped by a twist-filled climax.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Owens (Bone Game, LJ 9/1/94) mines a rich vein of Native American lore and landscape in this buddy thriller about two half-Cherokee ranchers in New Mexico. As dried up as their land, Will and Billy support themselves by rounding up cattle for other ranchers. When they conspire to divide up a dead man's million dollars, they set evil forces in motion that propel them into the dark Cherokee Nightland, ,from which only Will emerges. Most of the flashbacks are skillfully woven into the fabric of the narrative, but when they're not the pace sags. Owens, of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent, delivers multidimensional characters, quirky humor, and a lyrical sensitivity to Cherokee tradition that hovers on myth. A unique combination of literary style, strong story, and American Indian culture makes Nightland an appealing addition to fiction collections.?Molly Gorman, San Marino, Cal.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Book!,
This review is from: Nightland (Hardcover)
A body falls from the sky in the dry New Mexico wilds. Two native American ranchers sight the mysterious image and set off to find it. Nearby to the body impaled in the limbs of a tree, they find a suitcase full of money.This could be their lucky break, or their worst nightmare. They decide to risk keeping the money -- and to face the inevitable consequences . . . The native American insights are a delight to read. Louis Owens's beautifully crafted prose leaves a last impression.
5.0 out of 5 stars
"A well-wrought thriller" says Publisher's Weekly,
By A Customer
This review is from: Nightland (Paperback)
Owens' third American Indian crime thriller has received praise from Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist and others. The consequences of trying to keep found money (in this case, $850,000 dropped from a drug dealer's plane in remote New Mexico) take ranchers Will Striker and Billy Keene on a wild ride. Enter sex and magical realism, stir, and find yourself reading a "well-wrought thriller capped by a twist-filled climax."
5.0 out of 5 stars
This mystery is pure heat lightning,
By A Customer
This review is from: Nightland (Paperback)
from the very first paragraph. Owens's brand of wit and humor blend with his examination of the ranching life in the New Mexico desert to create a highly-charged, complex murder mystery. Set in Indian country, Nightland stakes a strong multicultural claim to the art form of the American Murder Mystery, but it stakes a claim also on the magical realism of American Indian and South American literature. The resulting blend of ghosts and grim realism give the story a dark, mystical, enspirited patina. The pig and dog are hilarious counterpoint to the Cherokee mixedblood heroes. Round out the story with amiable ghosts, a seductive shape-shifter, and some nasty bad guys and you have a bona fide page-turner.
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