It took all of thirty seconds for two shots to bring the world of Margaret Tabaaha crashing down around her. After losing her husband in Afghanistan during the first year of Operation Enduring Freedom, her two sons were all she had left. Now they had been taken from her violently, deliberately, plunging her into a whiskey bottle and stripping away her reason for living.When Arthur Nakai receives … receives a call from his first love, Margaret, her voice pleading for his help, it comes as he is attending a wake for one of the men he considered a brother from his days in the Marines 6th LAR Wolf Pack Battalion. Feeling a deep and responsible obligation to help her, Arthur soon finds himself involved in the multi-billion-dollar world of the oil and gas industry and coming face-to-face with an old adversary, Elias Dayton. Their paths had crossed when Arthur was a member of the Shadow Wolves, an elite tactical unit within US Customs and Border Protection. Now Dayton runs Patriot Security, a Blackwater-type firm that keeps the oil rigs, gas wells, and man camps secure from the Water Protectors, protesters pushing to stop the fracking and poisoning of Native lands.As Arthur works through the case from his end, Navajo police chief Jake Bilagody tackles it from another angle, looking into the strained relationship between the oil company and the Navajo people, all while searching for a missing Navajo man that may have become an unwilling piece on the reservation checkerboard. But when Arthur learns the identity of the boys’ killer, he struggles to make sense of it. Because if the clues are right, he will be forced to make a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life.
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My Review
Death waits in the dark.
By Mark Edward Langley.
The Arthur Nakai mystery’s Book 2.
When two young boys, lose there life one night. It’s a mystery but Arthur is on the job he’s not only a good friend of there mom. He’s there godfather…
Things that lead up to senseless death of these boys.
These boys saw things they weren’t meant to see.. among other shady things going on.
Leaving more than one death waiting in the Dark.
I personally Enjoy This Authors work.. I’m also Happy the next Book is out…
Mark Langley
Hillerman fans will like this author
With “Death Waits in the Dark,” Mark Edward Langley offers readers an utterly compelling portrait of human beings struggling to deal with the aftermath of great trauma. Langley writes about the great Southwest with a loving eye for detail that fans of Tony and Anne Hillerman will readily embrace. I was utterly captured by this fine second novel in the Arthur Nakai series. Along with those who are already fans, I can only hope that there will be many more stories to come. I recommend this book with a full heart.
This book started out really well. I was enjoying it until it went activist. I quit. Wish writers would either leave out the political and activists stuff or at least put a warning on the book cover. Thought I had found another good writer to add to my list. Oh well…
couldn’t get past the first few pages, boring