SKELETON MAN
TONY
HILLERMAN
While the collision of airliners central to the plot of this book was real and triggered the creation of the Federal Aviation Administration and its flight safety rules, the story and all of its characters are purely fictional. However, several of these fictional folks use names borrowed from generous donors to a fund to assist children stricken with cancer.
The author acknowledges the help of fellow writers Scott Thybony, Michael Ghiglieri, and Brad Dimick—three men who know that great canyon as well as anyone alive—and ethnologist Tandra Love, biologist William Degenhardt, and naturalist Ann Zwinger, whose
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1 Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, retired, had been explaining…
2 As Leaphorn remembered it, the August day he’d been…
3 The text of the message on Joanna Craig’s answering machine…
4 Bradford Chandler suddenly swiveled in his beach chair…
5 Within minutes after getting home from his meeting with…
6 Almost everyone liked Bernadette Manuelito. Always…
7 Joanna Craig was determined not to let her impatience…
8 The thunderstorm that had been moving steadily toward…
9 The thunderstorm was gone from Gallup now, drifting…
10 Brad Chandler had pulled his rental Land Rover into the…
11 The plan, carefully drawn up by Sergeant Jim Chee, involved…
12 Joe Leaphorn was listening to the coffee perking and…
13 Joanna Craig had followed Tuve on his homeward trip.
14 Bradford Chandler had done all the things he needed to…
15 Joe Leaphorn found he had a way to get in touch with…
16 “Girl,” the woman said, “you shouldn’t be here. Here it is…
