A corpse is mutilated in witchcraft fashion, a vandal is repeatedly damaging a Hopi windmill in the desert, a burglar who steals from Jake West's trading post behaves unconventionally, and, when a drug-smuggling aircraft crashes close to Chee, to where does the dope immediately vanish?
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"A book to read with pleasure." -- -- Colorado Springs Sun
"Background, characters, story--all first rate." -- -- Amarillo Texas News
"Hillerman is first-rate . . . fresh, original, and higly suspenseful." -- -- The Los Angeles Times
"Hillerman's best book in an already strong series." -- -- The New Republic
"Tony Hillerman continues to teach and delight." -- -- Ashville, N.C. Citizen-Times --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Tony Hillerman is a former president of the Mystery Writers of America and has received its Edgar® and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the LA Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement, the Center for the American Indian’s Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribe’s Special Friend Award. He lives with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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"Enemies unseen... Fears unspoken...... A dark wind has entered his soul"
Navajo Tribal Police Sgt. Jim Chee seems to be batting zero; so far he has not been able to solve a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. In an area that was joint use land between the Navaho and the Hopi (now Hopi) Sgt Jim Chee is given the task of finding the vandal that keeps destroying a windmill placed there to make Hopi life easer. He hears an airplane landing in the dark of night with no lights. The plane crashes and leaves a dying pilot. Also a dead man sitting up against a rock with a note in his hand saying if you want it back contact...
Sgt Chee is told that it is probably drugs and federal jurisdiction. Chee is not supposed to go anywhere near or have anything to do with the case. He has his own problems with the mill, a missing thief, and a mysterious ritual death. Naturally he listens, and can not help it if they overlap.
One of the reasons for reading Hillerman's books maybe more important than the overlying mystery is the descriptions of the area and the Ways of the Navaho and Hopi. Hillerman suggests you also read "The Book of the Hopi" by Frank Waters.
Not as intricate as the book but still fun is the movie "Dark Wind" (Lou Diamond Phillips as Officer Jim Chee, Fred Ward as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn)
Navajo Tribal Police Sgt. Jim Chee seems to be batting zero; so far he has not been able to solve a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. In an area that was joint use land between the Navaho and the Hopi (now Hopi) Sgt Jim Chee is given the task of finding the vandal that keeps destroying a windmill placed there to make Hopi life easer. He hears an airplane landing in the dark of night with no lights. The plane crashes and leaves a dying pilot. Also a dead man sitting up against a rock with a note in his hand saying if you want it back contact...
Sgt Chee is told that it is probably drugs and federal jurisdiction. Chee is not supposed to go anywhere near or have anything to do with the case. He has his own problems with the mill, a missing thief, and a mysterious ritual death. Naturally he listens, and can not help it if they overlap.
One of the reasons for reading Hillerman's books maybe more important than the overlying mystery is the descriptions of the area and the Ways of the Navaho and Hopi. Hillerman suggests you also read "The Book of the Hopi" by Frank Waters.
Not as intricate as the book but still fun is the movie "Dark Wind" (Lou Diamond Phillips as Officer Jim Chee, Fred Ward as Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn)
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Heard DARK WIND by Gordon Chaplin, a true story of a couple's
decision to ride out a tropical storm on their sailboat . . . it did not turn out as they had intended, and I was moved by what this account had to say about love, fate, risk-taking, and a whole lot more . . . this book is largely about the sea--ordinarily, not one of my favorite topics (perhaps, in large part, because I am not into sailing) . . . but because it also has plenty of adventure, romance and revenge, I was drawn into it right from the beginning . . . the narration by Paul Mitchell was excellent.
decision to ride out a tropical storm on their sailboat . . . it did not turn out as they had intended, and I was moved by what this account had to say about love, fate, risk-taking, and a whole lot more . . . this book is largely about the sea--ordinarily, not one of my favorite topics (perhaps, in large part, because I am not into sailing) . . . but because it also has plenty of adventure, romance and revenge, I was drawn into it right from the beginning . . . the narration by Paul Mitchell was excellent.
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"The Dark Wind" is a very interesting book. It has a lot of suspense and Hillerman takes you into the book with his descriptions. This book is a murder mystery that keeps you thinking. It also keeps getting weirder as you read.
The book starts with three Hopi Indians walking up a trail and discovering a boot lying in the middle of it. They walk up the trail a little ways more and discover a dead body. The body was reported and picked up some time after the three Hopis discovered it. by the time it was recovered it couldn't be identified. Later in the book Jim Chee (the main character) is told to watch a windmill that has been vandalized two times before. in the middle of the night Chee hears a plane flying low, but cant see any lights from it. a short while later he hears a crash and goes to investigate. When he gets there he finds two people dead and one that is almost dead. He trys to find out what happened form the one that is alive, but he dies before he can say anything.
The book keeps going like this getting Chee mixed up in all of it. Chee knows he didn't do anything wrong, but he is the only one that thinks that he is innocent. Over all I would recommend this book to any body that likes mysteries or that just wants a book that makes you think and makes you feel like your right there with the characters
The book starts with three Hopi Indians walking up a trail and discovering a boot lying in the middle of it. They walk up the trail a little ways more and discover a dead body. The body was reported and picked up some time after the three Hopis discovered it. by the time it was recovered it couldn't be identified. Later in the book Jim Chee (the main character) is told to watch a windmill that has been vandalized two times before. in the middle of the night Chee hears a plane flying low, but cant see any lights from it. a short while later he hears a crash and goes to investigate. When he gets there he finds two people dead and one that is almost dead. He trys to find out what happened form the one that is alive, but he dies before he can say anything.
The book keeps going like this getting Chee mixed up in all of it. Chee knows he didn't do anything wrong, but he is the only one that thinks that he is innocent. Over all I would recommend this book to any body that likes mysteries or that just wants a book that makes you think and makes you feel like your right there with the characters
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Good Mystery
Hillerman does it once more with "The Dark Wind." An upright boot on a out-of-the-way trail leads to the discovery of a dead man, a man with the skin removed from his... Read more
Published on Sep 22 2003 by Beverly J. Scott
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Hillerman's fifth "Navajo Detectives" novel
Jim Chee witnesses a mysterious plane crash on a makeshift desert runway on the lonely Navajo reservation in Arizona. Read more
Published on Nov 5 2002 by Smallchief
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The Dark Wind , review by Brett Mills
"The Dark Wind" is a great book by Tony Hillerman. It's about a mystery that just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Read more
Published on Oct 26 2002
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The Dark Wind
"The Dark Wind" is a great book by Tony Hillerman. It's about a mystery that just getting weirder and weirder. It starts when a couple of guys fishing run into a missing boot. Read more
Published on Oct 25 2002
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The usual Indians
The book contains a fairly good mystery, although large parts are rather predictable. But Hillerman spends a major part of his novel on explaining Hopi religion and ways of life to... Read more
Published on Sep 26 2001 by lvkleydorff
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A very complicated plot, but the ending provides...
very little closure.
I've read this book twice now, and I would have to say that it is definitely one of Hillerman's better ones. Read more
Published on July 24 2001
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transportation
The great pleasure of Tony Hillerman's series of police procedurals--featuring Sgt. Jim Chee and/or Lt. Read more
Published on July 12 2001 by Orrin C. Judd
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Quite good, but a disappointing ending
A good Hillerman mystery, except for the ending, which seems hurried, and left several questions unanswered.
If you are new to Hillerman, start with another one. Read more
Published on July 3 2001 by C. Studer
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One of the best Hillerman Mysterys!
Tony Hillerman wrote another winner in The Dark Wind! The mystery unfolds in an exciting manner that keeps the reader on the edge of his or her seat. Read more
Published on Mar 17 2001 by ROBERT KINGSLEY
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Navajo in a Hopi world complicated by the white men
A plane crashes in the desert; a nearby windmill is repeatedly destroyed; a body is found with fingprints removed; and a pawn shop is burglarized. Read more
Published on Jan 4 2001 by Carol Peterson Hennekens
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