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 wind-mill, 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. "HILLERMAN IS FIRST-RATE... FRESH, ORIGI-NAL, AND HIGHLY SUSPENSEFUL." -The Los Angeles Times