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The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5)
The Dark Wind - Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5
Author: Tony Hillerman
ISBN-13: 9780380633210
ISBN-10: 0380633213
Publication Date: 5/1983
Pages: 214
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 15 ratings
Publisher: Avon Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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reviewed The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5) on + 67 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Hillerman always has a surprise, a twist in the story that keeps you in suspense. I like the history, issues, customs of the Native Americans that weave in and out of the story and which makes each book so atypical of "regular" mysteries.
reviewed The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5) on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another great story told by Tony Hillerman about Jim Chee and the Navajo Tribal Police. I love this series and learn something every time I read on of them.
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Helpful Score: 1
Crime thriller that was an ok read. It is entertaining but not that great.
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Helpful Score: 1
A very good plot and has a lot of mysterious happenings. If you like Hillerman's books, this is a must because it's one of the best my husband and I have read so far.
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An excellent Hillerman mystery/thriller made into a major motion picture starring Lou Diamond Phillips.
answerquest avatar reviewed The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5) on + 197 more book reviews
Back cover: A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first strange clue in a deadly web spun by Navajo sorcery and white men's greed. Chee must piece together an airplane crash, an attack on a windmill, and a vanished cocaine shipment in order to solve the crime.
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awesome..Loved it will be reading more.
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Interesting tale about drug runners on the Hopi-Navajo reservation. Tony Hillerman makes mention that Hopi theology as represented in this novel may not be perfectly accurate.
jonnylongball avatar reviewed The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5) on + 43 more book reviews
Jim Chee is a very likeable character. Nice clean read. Mystery with the added bonuses of Navajo and Hopi culture.
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A mystery with a Native American twist. This is one of a series by the same author.
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Chee is back with Lephorn and mystery's to solve.
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My husbands favorite series.
ZIPPER avatar reviewed The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5) on + 35 more book reviews
Lt. Joe Leaphorn is drawn into a plot of Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.
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Jim Chee is one of the great American literary characters ever created. The story was taut, suspensful and satisfying to the end.
skymama avatar reviewed The Dark Wind (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 5) on + 14 more book reviews
VERY INTRIGUING JIM CHEE STORY, SEEMS TO BE TUNNELED TOWARD A COUPLE OF MURDERS, A BURGLARY OF A TRADING POST AND A AIRPLANE DRUG DROP THET WINDS UP WITH THREE MEN DEAD AT THE SCENE. HOW ARE THEY ALL CONNECTED? I ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH.
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A corpse whose plams and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nightime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, avanishing shipment of cocaine. sgt. Jiom 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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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 Navaho Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.