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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780061097850
ISBN number: 0061097853
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: July 01, 1999
Publishing house: HarperTorch
Release Date: June 03, 1999
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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 from the Navajo Tribal Police, 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 disappeared 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 too? 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.
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It seems like July 8 is going to be a bad day for Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee. He's got a stack of overdue paperwork on his desk. Anderson Nez has died of plague, but the circumstances around the death are murky. His ex-fiancée, Janet Pete, is returning from Washington, D.C., and Chee doesn't know what to think about her last letter. (Will they be getting married this time?) And Officer Benny Kinsman's unwanted advances have enraged Catherine Pollard (among others), one of the scientists studying this newest outbreak of the grey death. Now, the hot-headed Kinsman's gone off to nab a Hopi man who's poaching eagles. When Chee is called to back Kinsman up at Yells Back Butte, the bad day turns worse. He finds the young Hopi, Robert Jano, standing over Benny's mortally wounded body. Jano insists that he did not kill the police officer. Add to all this Joe Leaphorn's separate investigation, also involving July 8. Joe's got a new role as consulting detective to the wealthy--investigating the July 8 disappearance at Yells Back Butte of the same Catherine Pollard who was dogged by Kinsman.
This one bad day and the ensuing days of investigation bring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee together once again as they uncover the secret of Yells Back Butte, plague fleas, and skinwalkers. As usual, Hilllerman's ear for dialogue is remarkable. One does not read Leaphorn and Chee's words and thoughts as much as hear them. While the book invites new readers (little knowledge of the previous books in the series is presumed), one has the sense of entering an old neighborhood where friends and relations are established and emotions run deep. Jim Chee's pain is vivid as he struggles under the shadow of Leaphorn and questions the 'rusty trailer' lifestyle that has driven him apart from Janet. Nothing is contrived in his mixture of fear and elation when he and Janet meet again.
Hillerman has written an engaging novel that once again evokes the land and people of the Southwest while also confronting the cultural separateness of the region from the power centers of the East. Already honored for his previous work (Dance Hall of the Dead received the Edgar), The First Eagle is a welcome addition to the beloved Chee-Leaphorn series that began in 1971 with The Blessing Way. --Patrick O'Kelley
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I've read all of Tony Hillerman's books, primarily for the mysteries, but also for the setting and the unique education he passes along about the Hopi and Navajo indians. This is a typical good mystery by Hillerman, but a little atypical as relates to his penchant for mysticism and indian culture; there is relatively little. His characters are continuing down their developmental paths, retirement, a starcrossed romantic relationship and an up and coming sleuth. Their development is center stage in this book, and provide a good read, but I was expecting the normal mix of indian lore, superstition, and hard desert living that you normally get from Hillerman.
George E. Miller, author of The Lone War Cry
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I read this book in college for Cultural Anthropology to study the cultural aspects and customs of Native American reservations and its citizens. The novel provided some insight on social standings and customs but in terms of entertainment it falls quite short, as it is quite predictable and not overly fulfilling.
The writing is simply enough to provide the casual reader to breeze through chapters and the length of the novel is not overwhemling by any means.
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Acting Lt Jim Chee is finds a Hopi indian with blood on his hands and a dead policeman, and naturally assumes the Hopi had just killed him. This particular indian even has a motive! But all is not what it seems, as the legendary retired Lt Joe Leaphorn gets involved as a result of being hired to find a missing lady who was hunting for clues about the bubonic plague, fleas and prairie dogs. Leaphorn becomes suspicious that something else is going on, with strange reports of a ghost skinwalker in the area. Is the disappearance of the lady connected to the dead policeman? You will enjoy the cast of characters, political wrangling, blue herrings and the ultimate confrontation with the killer.
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I've read all of the Leaphorn/Chee books so now I'm enjoying them all over again as audiobooks. Most readers will agree that Hillerman's last 4 or 5 books haven't exactly been duds, but not up to the high standards set by his earlier works. This one may well be the last of the really strong ones.
Leaphorn is now retired. He decides to do a little private detective work and his case leads him into a seperate case being worked by Jim Chee. Without going into too much detail, just know that this one hangs together well, the characters are still growing and changing and Leaphorns thoughts on getting older, being retired and being lonely are heartfelt and real. Jim Chee makes a series of life-changing decisions in this one.
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"The First Eagle" was the novel that introduced me to Tony Hillerman, and I will forever be grateful. Superbly written and compelling. Mr. Hillerman's last few novels have been a bit disappointing ("The Shape Shifter" most of all), but "The First Eagle" is very first rate. Highly recommended.
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