The Shaman's Game

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Harper Collins, 13.10.2009 - 352 Seiten

For tribes of the American Southwest, the annual Sun Dance is among the most solemn and sacred of rituals. But lately Death has been an uninvited guest at the hallowed rite.

Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon is puzzled. The deceased Sun Dancers sustained no visible, life-ending injuries, so he is reluctant to call it murder -- though there is surely nothing "natural" about the sudden, inexplicable deaths of two strong and healthy men. Unlike her skeptical nephew, however, Charlie's aunt, shaman Daisy Perika, trusts the signs the spirits have sent her of a great evil in their midst. And Moon's matukach friend, Police Chief Scott Parris, believes the stubborn, good-natured Ute lawman should look beyond the rational for answers. Yet Charlie Moon knows too well that hatred, bitterness, and delusion are often behind lethal acts -- and he hopes these very human failings will reveal to him a killer. But now a beautiful childhood friend has stepped into harm's way and time is running out. For death is on the prowl once more -- and it will surely darken the Sun Dance again.

 

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The Shaman's Game
James D. Doss
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The Shaman's Game
James D. Doss
Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999
The Shaman's Game
James D. Doss
Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Antelope's Aunt Daisy blanket Blazer body bone breath brush corral Cañon del Espiritu canyon chair Charlie Moon Chigger coffee Daisy Perika dancer dancing thirsty dark dead Delly Sands Delly's door dream Drum eyes face fingers Foot Clan girl glanced Granite Creek grinned hand head hear heard Hispanic Hooper Antelope Horace Ignacio knew Larry Sands leaned looked Louise-Marie man's matukach Moon's Mountain Sun Dance muttered Myra Cornstone Navajo nodded Old Popeye Woman old woman Paiute pickup pickup truck Poker Martinez police pretty priest Red Heel Reuben Antelope sacred Sandman sandstone Scott Parris shaman Shoshone elder shoulder sighed Sioux smiled someone Southern Ute Spaidman stared Stella Antelope stood Sun Dance chief Sun Dance Lodge SUPD sure talk thing Towaoc tree tribal turned Ute Mountain Sun Ute policeman Ute woman voice waited walked watched whispered who'd Winston Steele witch young woman

Beliebte Passagen

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Autoren-Profil (2009)

James D. Doss, recently retired from the technical staff of Los Alamos National Laboratory, now spends most of his time in a small cabin above Taos -- writing mystery fiction. He also travels to the fascinating locations where his stories take place, often camping in remote areas to absorb the impression of an Anasazi ruin, a deep canyon, an arid mesa, or a Sun Dance. His Shaman series includes The Shaman Sings, The Shaman Laughs, The Shaman's Bones, The Shaman's Game, The Night Visitor, and Grandmother Spider. The unusual plots are a mix of high technology and mysticism (Shaman Sings), bizarre animal mutilations (Shaman Laughs), theft of a sacred artifact (Shaman's Bones), an unprecedented form of murder and revenge at the Sun Dance (Shaman's Game), a most peculiar haunting followed by the discovery of an astonishing fossil (Night Visitor), and -- because a small girl has killed a spider without performing the prescribed ritual -- the appearance of a monstrous, murderous, eight-legged creature on the reservation (Grandmother Spider, of course!).

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelThe Shaman's Game
Band 2 von Charlie Moon Series
Autor/inJames D. Doss
VerlagHarper Collins, 2009
ISBN006187082X, 9780061870828
Länge352 Seiten
  
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