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The first eagle : a novel / Tony Hillerman.

Hillerman, Tony. (Author).

Summary:

When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case{until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or another victim? And what about a report that a skinwalker{a Navajo witch{was seen at the same time and place too? For Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a place where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060175818
  • ISBN: 9780060175818
  • Physical Description: 278 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, [1998]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
760L Lexile
Subject:
Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Leaphorn, Joe, Lieutenant (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Indian reservation police > Fiction.
Indians of North America > Southwestern States > Fiction.
Navajo Indians > Fiction.
Plague > Fiction.
Police > Southwestern States > Fiction.
Police.
Southwest, New > Fiction.
Genre:
Detective and mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 65 of 69 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library. (Show)

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Robbins Area Library FIC HILLERMAN (Text) 48198000118964 Adult Fiction Available -
Robersonville Public Library FIC (Text) 38344300087879 Adult Fiction Available -
Rutherford County Library M Hil (AR) (Text) 38801100420600 Adult Fiction Available -
Southside Branch FIC Hillerman, Tony (Text) 0112512157614 Adult Fiction Available -
Spindale Public Library M Hil (Text) 30134100119271 Adult Fiction Mystery Available -
Spruce Pine Public Library FIC HIL (Text) 34444002321164 Adult Fiction Mystery Available -
Star Branch Library FIC HILLERMAN (Text) 38198000344372 Adult Fiction Available -
Statesville Main Library F HILLERMAN (Text) 33114013401146 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/24/2026
Swansboro Branch Library FIC HILLERMAN (Text) 36015001102660 Adult Fiction Available -
Thomasville Public Library F H (Text) 25908001749063 Adult Fiction Available -
Transylvania County Library M FIC HIL (Text) 38079101994754 Adult Fiction Mystery Available -
Vass Area Library FIC HILLERMAN (Text) 48198000398954 Adult Fiction Available -
W.C. Jones Memorial Library MYST F HILLERMAN (Text) 01011700066296 Adult Fiction Available -
Walnut Cove Public Library F HILLERMAN (Text) 30670100067846 Adult Fiction Available -
Watauga County Public Library F HIL (Text) 50502010913642 Adult Fiction Mystery Available -
Weaverville Library A/PBK (Text) 0020513742062 Adult Fiction Paperback Checked out 08/20/2026
Western Carteret F HIL (Text) 2000512339 Adult Fiction Available -
Wilkes County Public Library FPB HIL (Text) 50501011649593 Adult Fiction Available -
Yadkin County Public Library F HILLERMAN (Text) 30671100425794 Adult Fiction Available -