The Dark Wind
by Hillerman, Tony
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0060149361
- ISBN 13
- 9780060149369
- Seller
-
Boise, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
Navajo Tribal Policeman Jim Chee is drawn into the world of Hopi sorcery and Navajo witchcraft. Blue cloth and blue paper covered boards. Very good+ in VG+ dust jacket. Head and heel of spine no longer crisp. Jacket has a small crease to upper corner of front flap and towhead of spine, small abrasion to front panel near flap fold, very light shelf wear to rear panel.
Synopsis
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.Officer Jim Chee becomes trapped in a deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Last Word Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1453
- Title
- The Dark Wind
- Author
- Hillerman, Tony
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060149361
- ISBN 13
- 9780060149369
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 214
- Size
- 8.5 X 5.75”
- Keywords
- Navajo Indians-Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries & Detective Stories--Male Authors;
Terms of Sale
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- Shelf Wear
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- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.