The Black Kachina
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491_9781943402694
When a top-secret weapon goes missing on Colonel Maggie Blacks watch, her honor and her career are on the line. There were airmen who said the Air Forces best female combat pilot would never be the same after losing her arm in Iraq, but state-of-the-art prosthetics have made Maggie better than new, and shes not about to lose what she battled so hard to regain. But finding her experimental missile wont be easy-thanks to the revenge-fueled ambitions of Asdrubal Torres, whose hallucinatory encounter with the Great Spirit challenges him to refill Lake Cahuilla, the ancient inland sea that once covered much of southern California. To fulfill his blessed mission, Torres needs wizardry and weaponry, and the Great Spirit provides both: Magic, in the form of a celebrated shamans basket returned to the tribal museum by San Diego reporter Jordan Scott; Might, in the form of Maggie Blacks top-secret weapon that falls from the sky. From that moment, its a race against time for Maggie and Jordan, who together must stop Torres from destroying Hoover Dam-and turning the Colorado River into a tsunami that would kill hundreds of thousands and wipe out the Southwests water supply. In the final showdown, its Maggie who must disarm the stolen missiles trigger-one-handed or not-and save the day. Praise for THE BLACK KACHINA: Jack Getzes newest novel, The Black Kachina, marks the arrival of a new star in the international thriller pantheon. Move over, Jack Reacher and make a place at the table for Colonel Maggie Black and her Robin, journalist Jordan Scott. Getze has just hit it out of the park, a gargantuan tape-measure of a clout with this, his best novel to date. My hope is that hes hard at work writing the second of what is sure to be a hugely-successful series. Movie people should be all over this one. -Les Edgerton, author of The Bitch, The Rapist, The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping, Lagniappe and others With an intriguing mix of Native American folklore and
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