The Dark Wind
Novel by Tony Hillerman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dark Wind is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the fifth in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, published in 1982. It is the second of the novels to feature Officer Jim Chee.
Author | Tony Hillerman |
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Cover artist | Myers & Noftsinger |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
Series | Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police Series |
Genre | Detective fiction |
Set in | Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation in Southwestern United States |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Publication date | 1982 |
Media type | Print and audio |
Pages | 214 |
ISBN | 0-06-014936-1 |
OCLC | 7738198 |
Preceded by | People of Darkness (1980) |
Followed by | The Ghostway (1984) |
Now working from Tuba City, Sgt. Chee is assigned four cases by Capt. Largo. A drug-smuggling plane crashes, and Largo insists Chee stay away from that case, a tough challenge as he gathers information from Hopis, whites and Navajos to solve the original cases.
Reviewers found this to have a "classic Hillerman plot", involving a plane crash, possibly illegal drugs, and a vandalized windmill on the Joint-Use lands.[1] It is "relentlessly introspective" and "with Hillerman's moodily fine prose in full Southwest regalia", as the Hopi and the Navajo ways are contrasted, and Chee explores a white man's motivation, of revenge.[2]