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Contributor(s): Bruchac, Joseph (Author)

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ISBN: 0806152079     ISBN-13: 9780806152073
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: April 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators
- Fiction | Thrillers - Crime
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2015038310
Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.80 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Booklist 05/01/2016 pg. 20
 
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Publisher Description:

Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York--four hundred miles from his tribal community on Abenaki Island. Then one night the phone rings. "We . . . got . . . trouble," Neptune's cousin Dennis says from the other end. And trouble is where it all starts in this brilliant, often hilarious novel by acclaimed Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac.

Attacked by bikers before he can even board his plane, Neptune--"Podjo" to his friends--quickly begins to realize just how much trouble surrounds his people's ancestral home. Guided by his sense of duty to his homeland, he agrees to help protect Dennis and other Penacooks as they stage a takeover of a state campground on land that should have reverted to their tribe. But encroaching developers, government operators, and even fellow Penacooks eager to build a casino each pose a threat to the Abenaki lands--and all have reasons to want Neptune out of the picture.

Podjo greets each challenge with self-deprecating humor--but it's difficult to shake his increasingly disturbing dreams, and an unsettled feeling when his return leads to a reunion with a long-ago love interest. As he and Dennis contend with hired guns, police, and security, a far greater threat appears: someone, or something, is brutally killing people in the woods. It will take all of Neptune's skills as a martial artist and the wisdom gained from tribal elders to battle the forces that threaten the sacred land--and his and his people's lives.

Bruchac ratchets the tension from the first page to the last in this detective novel that pairs comedy and action with serious consideration of corporate greed, environmental destruction, cultural erosion, and other modern-day issues pressing Native peoples.


Contributor Bio(s): Bruchac, Joseph: - Joseph Bruchac, an Abenaki writer, poet, and storyteller, has written more than 130 books during his distinguished career. His best-selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children is used in classrooms across the country.
 
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