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Legions of fans will cheer the return of legendary Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in Hillerman's most intricate and atmospheric novel yet.When a skeleton is found wedged in the apex of a 1,700 foot high Navajo holy place, the team of Leaphorn and Chee recall a ten-year-old missing persons case that had never turned up the body of Hal Breedlove -- until now. But before the pair can celebrate, an old Navajo guide, the last person to have seen Breedlove alive, is seriously wounded by a sniper. Now Chee and Leaphorn begin to suspect that Breedlove's death was murder, and begin an investigation that takes them through a tangled web of intrigue and deceit and prompts a rash of violence in the high desert.
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The Fallen Man, Tony Hillerman
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- The Fallen Man
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tony Hillerman
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140247645
- ISBN13
- 9780140247640
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Suspense, Detective Fiction, Wild West, Detective, Native Americans, New Mexico
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- Legions of fans will cheer the return of legendary Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in Hillerman's most intricate and atmospheric novel yet.When a skeleton is found wedged in the apex of a 1,700 foot high Navajo holy place, the team of Leaphorn and Chee recall a ten-year-old missing persons case that had never turned up the body of Hal Breedlove -- until now. But before the pair can celebrate, an old Navajo guide, the last person to have seen Breedlove alive, is seriously wounded by a sniper. Now Chee and Leaphorn begin to suspect that Breedlove's death was murder, and begin an investigation that takes them through a tangled web of intrigue and deceit and prompts a rash of violence in the high desert.