David and Aimee Thurlo
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Second Sunrise By David & Aimée Thurlo Published by Tom Doherty Associates Copyright 2002 ISBN: 0-765-30441-4 Series: Lee Nez Genre: Mystery / Native American / Vampire
I adore Tony Hillerman mysteries. I find the Navajo, their mysticism and unique vision of the world fascinating. The desert is beautiful and stark and often deadly. David and Aimée Thurlo's novels manage to capture this same atmosphere.
SECOND SUNRISE is about a Navajo policeman, Lee Nez. During World War II, he and his partner come across the ambush of a military convoy by a group of German spies. Lee's rookie partner is killed immediately and Lee himself wounded. Lee finds one soldier alive, but dying. The spies are after a shipment of plutonium headed for the first atomic bomb test. Following the dying Lieutenant's instructions, Lee manages to hide the box before he is recaptured and tortured. Lee eventually escapes, but so does Hans Gruber, the man that Lee blames for the murder of his partner and the soldiers in the convoy.
Break to modern day, over 50 years later. Hans Gruber has returned to the Southwest to hunt for the plutonium and Lee Nez is determined to finally have his vengeance. But before you start envisioning two old men with white hair, false teeth, canes and walkers chasing one another, there is one thing you should know. Hans Gruber is a vampire and he turned Lee Nez into one, too, to keep Lee from dying before he could reveal where he had hidden the box.
After escaping from Hans Gruber, Lee sought the help of a Navajo medicine man. While the hataalii did the best he could, he could not cure Lee. He became a day walker, able to withstand the sun for longer periods of time, and while not having the strength of a full vampire, he is still stronger and faster than a human, with the ability to see in the dark. Unlike movie vampires, he doesn't have fangs or go around killing people and drinking their blood. He does drink blood--calves blood, which just gives him more of a kick.
Becoming a vampire doesn't make you bad. You are who you were. So Lee Nez has remained an upholder
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