Nightwing (novel)

Not to be confused with Nightwings (novella).

First edition (publ. Norton)

Nightwing is a 1977 thriller novel by Martin Cruz Smith, 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.

Novels by Martin Cruz Smith

Arkady Renko series	Gorky Park (1981) Polar Star (1989) Red Square (1992) Havana Bay (1999) Wolves Eat Dogs (2004) Stalin's Ghost (2007) Three Stations (2010) Tatiana (2013)

Other novels	Gypsy in Amber (1971) Canto for a Gypsy (1972) The Midas Coffin (1975) Nightwing (1977) Rose (1996) December 6 (2002)

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