Two NativeAmerican boys have vanished into thin air leaving a pool of bloodbehind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choicebut to ... » 

Two NativeAmerican boys have vanished into thin air leaving a pool of bloodbehind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choicebut to suspect the very worst since the blood that stains the parched NewMexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing a youngZuNi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by animportant archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And theunique laws and sacred religious rites of the ZuNi people are throwingimpassable roadblocks in Leaphorns already twisted path enabling a cravenmurderer to elude justice or worse still to kill again. «