LOUIS OWENS
A man falls from the sky over the New Mexico wilds. Will Striker and Billy keene, two lifelong friends who share half-Cherokee blood and own adjoining failing ranches, see him come down. Near the corpse they find another object from the sky as well: a suitcase containing nearly a million dollars. If they keep the money, it can turn their dead-end lives around. Thus begins a thriller set in a dry-as-dust New Mexico landscape where human grit is more plentiful than water, the past more present than the future, and the place of darkness that Cherokee mythology calls Nightland is on all horizons. By blending the gut-wrenching realism of Robert Stone with the Native American magical vision of Tony Hillerman, Louis Owens has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful, high-voltage thriller that uniquely captures a world of stunning power and depth.
