Lt. Jim Chee investigates the case of a young Hopi eagle-poacher caught huddled over the body of a policeman who has tried to arrest him. Chee's retired former boss, Joe Leaphorn, is trying to locate a biologist who vanished while hunting the source of a deadly outbreak of bubonic plague. By an odd coincidence, the biologist disappeared from the same place on the same day the policeman was killed.mysterynet.com.