Taggart Roper is back - trying to save a bad-attitude Cherokee kid falsely accused of the murder of a brutal lawman in a small Oklahoma town riddled with corruption and racked by racial tensions. Indian militants, homicidal deputies, even the private goons of a sinister atomic energy company - they've all got it in for one another, and Roper, as usual, is the man in the middle. An exciting and multilayered mystery, an authentic look at the modern-day Native American scene, this is the third in William Sanders's critically acclaimed mystery series.