Mining Sacred Ground edition by David Knop Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Ancestral spirits demand that Marine veteran Peter Romero protect the secrecy of a sacred burial ground, and the world becomes a stranger place than he’d ever understood. He is pitted against a psychotic anthropology professor in a life-and-death struggle through the hills, arroyos, and caves of central Arizona, and into another world.
When Romero’s cousin is murdered, the former military policeman is astonished that the local sheriff shows no enthusiasm for solving the crime. He is forced to recognize that, after a military career, greater danger lies ahead in his civilian life.
Romero takes up arms to mete out his own justice, but he must decide if he belongs to the world he sees, or to a spirit world in which he discovers the strength of his ancestors. He makes their power a part of his being. As a spirit warrior, Romero battles self-doubt, his wife’s threats of divorce, and local law enforcement who plan his murder. He confronts an armed gang bent on revenge, skirts federal agents intent on stopping him, and evades the deadly fire of a deranged sniper.
Aided by a wise tribal elder, Romero uncovers a tangle of clues that link his cousin’s death to trafficking in ancient treasures and a deadly conspiracy that centers him in their crosshairs. Romero combines his combat experience and the fighting skills of his ancestors to dispatch his enemies and protect an ancient secret.
Mining Sacred Ground edition by David Knop Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I'll start by praising the writing style. I'm a stickler for economy of words and word choice, and the author nails it. Mining Sacred Ground is a masterful display of imagery wrapped tightly around action verbs. This creates the desired effect of rapid pace and vitality of narrative.The main character is an alcoholic, hallucinating, ex-cop thrown out of his own tribe for questionable reasons. When he's faced with solving multiple crimes connected by violent, gun-slinging thugs on both sides of the law, you know he's finding his way into trouble. And it's a great story, tight and consistent, free of irrelevant tangents or contradictions.
Having grown up in Scottsdale, Arizona, I know the setting, and the author brought me home with the authority of his descriptions. Having suffered bruised ribs, the author also brought me home to the brutality his main character suffered while fighting his way through long odds and self-doubt to drive this story home to a satisfying conclusion.
Some of the spiritual/hallucination scenes warp reality, but the writing is so vibrant and tight that any ambiguity in the shifts between reality and the main character's altered perception is excusable.
Mining Sacred Ground earned praise from the Military Writers Society of America for good reason. It's a gem worth reading.
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Mining Sacred Ground edition by David Knop Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Dave Knop's "Mining Sacred Ground" is a story richly told, about people we care about, in a setting we've all seen, and that answers the most important question readers always ask What happens next? Knop is uniquely sensitive to the cultural and historic issues he so deftly presents. His new book shares, in the best sense of 21st Century fiction, the sense of injustice, the absurdity, and the richness of the world he paints. You cannot read this book without a sense of looking inside a world that no longer exists, hoping that it was all true, and fearing that it was not. He is a master plotter, but still manages to keep his voice inside the characters and never strays outside the story lines. I loved it. Too many novelists follow a tired track of conflit, crisis, and resolution, because that time-honored paradigm often works for readers. But Knop, and his Marine protagonist know that there is only one plot in this kind of fiction ("Stranger Comes To Town"). And together they give us a story that ignores traditional paradigms and narrows down the narrative to the only thing that makes fiction interesting--TROUBLE. Peter Romero loves trouble. You'll love him.
Peter Romero--a Marine veteran, former military policeman, and disgraced tribal policeman for the Cochiti pueblo--is an unlikely and reluctant hero in this murder mystery set in the world of the Arizona desert. When Romero's cousin is murdered, no one seems interested in pursuing justice except Romero and an odd old Apache, Tag Taza. Bad things keep coming from all sides meth-dealing biker gangs, assaults, arrests by the local police, a sniper, pot thieves, and a disgruntled wife. At one point, Taza says "I look for trouble and there you are."
Like in Tony Hillerman's novels set on the Navaho reservation, the reader is immersed in the way of life and belief systems of the pueblos and the Apache. Soon Romero's present day becomes populated by sightings of Coyote, the trickster, as well as visions of his dead cousin and other ghosts. Rather than leading our protagonist safely through trouble, these send him into more danger and disconnect him further from anything normal until the reader wonders if modern day troubles can be confronted and defeated using spirits of the past or will the mortal clay of Peter Romero be destroyed?
Re the writing itself, I always knew where I was in the world David Knop created--setting and action are well-written. Most dialogue is realistic and flows, though the dialogue with his disgruntled wife is stilted with neither of them sounding authentic. Whenever Romero thinks about his wife the writing is awkward. Also, the cover is off-putting. I would not have even picked up this book if I only saw the cover, which would have been a shame. It is a good book, though a bit heavy handed on informing the reader about the Cochiti and Apache beliefs--which is odd because the parts I enjoyed best were the element of the spirit warriors, the ghosts and Coyote.
David E. Knop has written a fast-paced, gritty novel of a spirit warrior's journey to find a killer so his cousin's ghost can rest on sacred ground.
This is a wonderful read, full of twists and turns and unexpected detours throughout Arizona, mixing the Old West with the New West. Mr. Knop has carefully assembled a cast of characters who, on our first meeting are nondescript, but as we learn the back story and the history behind many of the lead characters - well, put it this way things are definitely not what they seem.
Is Romero haunted by his own demons - or, is he on a spiritual journey to cleanse his soul? All that is presented to Romero in the first half of Mr. Knop's work is unraveled and plunged into confusion at midpoint where the shocks and surprises abound. As has been noted in previous reviews, you will want to find a comfortable chair to finish the book for you won't want to put it down.
Knop has crafted a very entertaining mystery that will keep you guessing and then surprise you with the unexpected. The end makes one wonder is Romero riding into the sunset, or, will we be hearing more about him in the future? This reader hopes for the latter.
I'll start by praising the writing style. I'm a stickler for economy of words and word choice, and the author nails it. Mining Sacred Ground is a masterful display of imagery wrapped tightly around action verbs. This creates the desired effect of rapid pace and vitality of narrative.
The main character is an alcoholic, hallucinating, ex-cop thrown out of his own tribe for questionable reasons. When he's faced with solving multiple crimes connected by violent, gun-slinging thugs on both sides of the law, you know he's finding his way into trouble. And it's a great story, tight and consistent, free of irrelevant tangents or contradictions.
Having grown up in Scottsdale, Arizona, I know the setting, and the author brought me home with the authority of his descriptions. Having suffered bruised ribs, the author also brought me home to the brutality his main character suffered while fighting his way through long odds and self-doubt to drive this story home to a satisfying conclusion.
Some of the spiritual/hallucination scenes warp reality, but the writing is so vibrant and tight that any ambiguity in the shifts between reality and the main character's altered perception is excusable.
Mining Sacred Ground earned praise from the Military Writers Society of America for good reason. It's a gem worth reading.
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