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Summary: The Dark Wind , review by Brett Mills
Review: "The Dark Wind" is a great book by Tony Hillerman. It's about a mystery that just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
It starts when a couple of guys fishing run into a missing boot. As they walk farther they eventually find a dead body with no bottoms to the feat. These men get scared and then call the Navajo Tribal Police. Here we first see our protagonist Jim Chee. When the body is taken into the morgue Jim and some of the other policemen go to see who it is.
As they investigate the body they soon find out that the it had been there for a while because of the decomposing that had occured to it. Then after about a day or two it is revealed that the body is that of John Doe. Also because Chee was once a part of his Uncle's training in tribal rituals he knows that there were no bottoms to the feat because that's what a witch would use for his or her powder.
Soon Chee also learns of some even more troubling news. While at Chee's station he hears a low lying plane overhead. Since it is dark Chee cannot see the plane. Then about a minute later Chee hears a crash and decides to investigate.
When Chee finally arrives he finds three dead bodies and one almost dead. Chee trys to ask the dying man what happened, but not too soon after he dies. What adds more to the mystery is that he hears a car starting and running off away from the crash.Then to add even more to the suspense Chee learns that the plane was transporting illegal drugs; which turned out to be a shipment of cocaine.
Chee then notices that there were lanterns on the ground, probably to mark were the pilot was supposed to land. They had been moved so that the plane would crash! Chee realizes that the crash was no accident, but murder!
When Chee thinks that his day couldn't possibly be any worse he learns that someone had vandalized a windmill; which had previously been vandalized twice before.
Chee soon figures out that the plane and murder are none of his business, and that that job should be the FBI's job. Chee then starts to try and figure out who the vandalizer is , but has absolutely no fingerprints, footsteps, or just any evidence at all.
Chee thinks that it's all hopeless until two men from the DEA, (Drug Enforcement Agenecy) come to search Chee's house while he's sleeping. Chee wakes up and asks what they ae doing. Then the two men, Johnson and Collins, handcuff him and tell him to confess to the plane crash. Chee says he has nothing to do with it, but they dont buy it.
The two men eventually leave Chee's house saying that they'll keep an eye on him. Chee decides that he should take his vacation now and go to his Uncle's village. Chee trys to get there as soon as he can, but when Chee thinks that he will get a break he gets a lead on to the plane crash. He is told By a man named West that two men of the names Palanzar and Musket stole the cocaine.
The lead takes him no where and nothing has happened to the windmill in a long while. Chee thinks that Musket is the one who skinned John Doe, and that his Uncle might be able to answer his question.
Will John Chee's Uncle ever answer his burning question? Are the men Palanzar and Musket responsible for the plane crash, and will Chee ever catch the vandalizer of the windmill? To find you have to read the book!
I would recommend this book to good readers, but if your a slow reader this is not the book for you. The books about 300 pages and is pretty hard to understand sometimes. Overall it's a good book and would be enjoyed by many people.

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Summary: good book
Review: "The Dark Wind" is a very interesting book. It has a lot of suspense and Hillerman takes you into the book with his descriptions. This book is a murder mystery that keeps you thinking. It also keeps getting weirder as you read.
The book starts with three Hopi Indians walking up a trail and discovering a boot lying in the middle of it. They walk up the trail a little ways more and discover a dead body. The body was reported and picked up some time after the three Hopis discovered it. by the time it was recovered it couldn't be identified. Later in the book Jim Chee (the main character) is told to watch a windmill that has been vandalized two times before. in the middle of the night Chee hears a plane flying low, but cant see any lights from it. a short while later he hears a crash and goes to investigate. When he gets there he finds two people dead and one that is almost dead. He trys to find out what happened form the one that is alive, but he dies before he can say anything.
The book keeps going like this getting Chee mixed up in all of it. Chee knows he didn't do anything wrong, but he is the only one that thinks that he is innocent. Over all I would recommend this book to any body that likes mysteries or that just wants a book that makes you think and makes you feel like your right there with the characters

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Summary: Interesting story of love and fate.
Review: Heard DARK WIND by Gordon Chaplin, a true story of a couple's
decision to ride out a tropical storm on their sailboat . . . it did not turn out as they had intended, and I was moved by what this account had to say about love, fate, risk-taking, and a whole lot more . . . this book is largely about the sea--ordinarily, not one of my favorite topics (perhaps, in large part, because I am not into sailing) . . . but because it also has plenty of adventure, romance and revenge, I was drawn into it right from the beginning . . . the narration by Paul Mitchell was excellent.