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The first eagle, Tony Hillerman

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fiction

The first eagle

Tony Hillerman

A Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mystery

Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.1, 10.0, 46857.Reading Counts RC, High School, 4.6, 17, Quiz: 47159.

When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. The scientist diappeared 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 skinwalker--a Navajo witch--was seen at the same time and place? for Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a place where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide