First edition (publ. Norton)

Nightwing is a 1977 thriller novel by Martin Cruz Smith,[1] who adapted it for a 1979 film with the same title directed by Arthur Hiller.

Plot summary

A disgruntled, disenfranchised Hopi shaman sets out to "end the world" by way of a ritual invocation of the Hopi god of death. Shortly after his mutilated corpse is discovered by a skeptical Tewa deputy the body count begins to rise as more strangely slashed and bloodied victims are found.

The book has many elements: part love triangle; part Native American case study; part supernatural thriller. It was the author's own tribal ancestry which inspired the writing of this fictionalized anthropological mini-survey.

References

  1. ↑ Nightwing. 2019-06-25. ISBN 978-1-5011-9971-4.


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