First Eagle

“The First Eagle displays all the strengths of Hillerman’s writing: a vivid sense of place, nuanced characters, and a complex, engrossing plot.”  — Washington Post


The thirteenth novel in the Leaphorn and Chee series by New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman.

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 hotheaded 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.

,,Primul vultur prezinta toate punctele forte ale scrisului lui Hillerman: un simt viu al locului, personaje nuantate si o intriga complexa si captivanta." -- Washington Post Al treisprezecelea roman din seria Leaphorn and Chee al autorului de bestseller-uri din New York Times, Tony Hillerman. Cand lt. interimar Jim Chee prinde un braconier Hopi ingramadit peste un ofiter de politie tribal Navajo macelarit, el are un caz deschis si inchis-- pana cand fostul sau sef, Joe Leaphorn, il deschide larg.