People of Darkness (Jim Chee Novels)

Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.An assassin waits for Officer Jim Chee in the desert to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed by blood.Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest. But there, out in the Bad Country, a lone assassin waits for Chee to come seeking answers, waits ready and willing to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed in blood. Dont miss the TV series, Dark Winds , based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+! Hillerman . . . is in a class by himself. Los Angeles Times The fourth novel in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillermans highly acclaimed Leaphorn and Chee series. A dying man is murdered. A rich mans wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where everything good struggles to survive, including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police must use all of his powers of deduction and insight to extricate himself from a dangerous web consisting of a mysterious millionaire, a sinister, peyote-eating Indian cult and murder Officer Jim Chee is drawn into his Navajo heritage as he investigates the bizarre theft of a box of trinkets -- a theft that endangers his life as well as the life of a young schoolteacher E-book extras: Leaphorn, Chee, and the Navajo Way ; The novels, as annotated by T.H. ; Tony Hillerman on... ; Skinwalkers becomes a mystery! ; Profile of the Navajo nation. It was a job which required waiting for cultures to grow, for toxins to develop, for antibodies to form, for reagents to react.