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Title: The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman ISBN: 0-06-109785-3 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.69 (81 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: I was disappointed. . .
Comment:
I love everything about Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn. I love their native blood, their corner of the world, their integrity, their skills as lawmen. I eagerly await each new Hillerman book and was on the list at amazon.com for weeks for his latest story.
With that said, I must admit that this was the first time since "Finding Moon" that I did not finish a Hillerman/Chee/Leaphorn story in one sitting. In fact, it took me almost a week to slog through to the conclusion.
The story had little, if any, cohesivenss -- I had to re-read parts to keep all the characters straight. I found several of the plot devices trite and so beneath the characters.
I did like Joe Leaphorn's new love interest and look forward to more stories with the two of them joining forces to solve crimes.
I was also very touched by the scene between Jim Chee and his beloved granduncle. I wept at the end of that chapter. Hillerman's talents were at full tilt during this scene and I wished for more of the same...it just wasn't to be found in this book.
"First Eagle" is not a true representation of Hillerman's abilities. If you're a first time reader, try ANY of the earlier stories. To me, they're heads above this latest effort.
Terry Mathews
Rating: 4
Summary: Spritely, Has That Hillerman Flair
Comment: This is a pleasurable entry in the Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn series. Though it seems minimalist compared with author Hillerman's earlier achievements in THIEF OF TIME and TALKING GOD, it really has a lot going for it. It does not cover the folklore in depth as previous volumes have, but it stands on its own as a diverting mystery with interesting characters.
Hillerman continues to make use of his own time-honored device to launch two plotlines in THE FIRST EAGLE, one featuring Jim Chee, now Acting Lieutenant on the Navajo reservation police squad, and the other, Joe Leaphorn, former Lietenant in charge, now retired. Jim Chee has the death of a cop and a suspect he's caught red-handed over the body, and Leaphorn has a missing person's case, his first civilian detecting job. Hillerman braids the strands together, along with many complications, including research scientists and health officers chasing down sources of contemporary outcroppings of bubonic plague on the reservation. While it is apparent who at least one bad guy is in the first chapter, the why, what and how unfolds not so easily. Clues and red herrings mount up entertainingly.
Chee and Leaphorn are nicely sketched, with progressive shading. Female characters have never been Hillerman's strength, but Louisa, Leaphorn's friend is good company, and the glamorous Janet Pete returns to drive an edginess into Chee's life and the plot. The bad guys are original but not particularly nuanced.
Rating: 3
Summary: Tail feathers and a snowman
Comment: By the time of "The First Eagle," Lt. Joe Leaphorn has become Mr. Leaphorn and Jim Chee is acting lieutenant of the Navajo police. But some things have not changed. Murder is still a problem on the reservation as is bubonic plague, carried by fleas from rodents, especially prairie dogs. The plague has brought investigators from different labs hoping to gain knoweldge of how the new, resistant strain can be combated.
The police investigation begins when one of their own, Officer Kinsman, is killed by a Hopi poaching eagles on the reservation. Chee catches the man red-handed (with blood) and arrests him. Meanwhile, Leaphorn has been asked to try and find Catherine Pollard, a young biologist who has been working for the health service on the plague problem. As the separate investigations progress, their paths begin to converge.
To complicate matters, Chee is surprised and guardedly optimistic to find his one-time fiance has returned from Washington, and she is working with the public defenders office and will be defending the Hopi. He agonizes over whether her feelings have changed and is noncomittal when the prosecutor and FBI agents ask about his relationship with her.
Much hinges on whether there were one or two eagles captured by the Hopi, and what has happened to the missing health services investigator. Is she alive? Did she kill Kinsman? Or is the Hopi guilty after all?
This is another of Hillerman's good, simple mysteries involving two of the favorite policemen in the southwest. Readers of Hillerman's mysteries might also enjoy those written by Dick Francis. Although taking place in England, for the most part, they are as clearly written and have heroes of the same caliber.
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Title: Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman ISBN: 0061097861 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman ISBN: 0061092886 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman ISBN: 0061098795 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman ISBN: 0061092606 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman ISBN: 0061000299 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 15 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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