The Fallen Man

Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet. Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, believes the shooter and the skeleton are somehow connected and recalls a chilling puzzle he was previously unable to solve. But Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee is too busy to take an interest in a dusty cold case ... until the reborn violence of it hits much too close to home.

Set in

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  Washington DC · United States

  Capitol attack climax
  ★ primary
• Tokyo · Japan

  Japanese antagonist headquarters
• Saipan · Northern Mariana Islands

  Japanese land acquisition