Dan is 3/8 Indian and, while seemingly unbelieving, has sleeping and occasional waking dreams, as had his mother, of coyote's the trickster and shape shifters. These are like barely heard background noises. His wife had died of cancer a year ago, his bright beautiful daughter is off to work and to summer school. He had grown up in the four corners area and in the service had done intelligence work, he is retired and is now a high school math teacher on his way to teaching summer classes after dropping his daughter off.A niece calls while he is traveling and begs for help, her husband is hiding in the desert accused of a murder he says he did not commit and she wants Dan to investigate. He did not think a lot of her husband and going "home" brought back memories. His parents had disappeared mysteriously many years ago and his older brother was killed in an auto accident about 18 years ago.He can defend himself, but this is not an action adventure hero who mops up the bad guys with a flurry of kicks and shot gun blasts. He stays in shape but is not a combat robot, he thinks and analyses and follows clues and once engaged is very persistent. He pulls the threads of a tangled web spun by a loose conspiracy of men who have and seek power and riches above all, letting no one (least of all family) get in their way. An interesting hero and a good tale. I look forward to reading other books.
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