Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them.
And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zu i people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn\'s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, kill again.. and a steel hypodermic needle. . .
But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig .
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zu i.
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them
