while a top-secret weapon is going lacking on Colonel Maggie Black’s watch, her honor and her occupation are at the line. there have been airmen who acknowledged the Air Force’s most sensible girl strive against pilot could by no means be a similar after wasting her arm in Iraq, yet state of the art prosthetics have made Maggie higher than new, and she’s no longer approximately to lose what she battled so not easy to regain.

But discovering her experimental missile won’t be easy—thanks to the revenge-fueled goals of Asdrubal Torres, whose hallucinatory come across with the nice Spirit demanding situations him to replenish Lake Cahuilla, the traditional inland sea that when lined a lot of southern California. to satisfy his blessed challenge, Torres wishes wizardry and weaponry, and the nice Spirit presents either: Magic, within the kind of a celebrated shaman’s basket again to the tribal museum by way of San Diego reporter Jordan Scott; may well, within the type of Maggie Black’s top-secret weapon that falls from the sky.

From that second, it’s a race opposed to time for Maggie and Jordan, who jointly needs to cease Torres from destroying Hoover Dam—and turning the Colorado River right into a tsunami that might kill millions and wipe out the Southwest’s water provide. within the ultimate showdown, it’s Maggie who needs to disarm the stolen missile’s trigger—one-handed or not—and store the day.

Praise for THE BLACK KACHINA:

“Jack Getze’s latest novel, The Black Kachina, marks the coming of a brand new celebrity within the overseas mystery pantheon. flow over, Jack Reacher and make a spot on the desk for Colonel Maggie Black and her Robin, journalist Jordan Scott. Getze has simply hit it out of the park, a gargantuan tape-measure of a clout with this, his top novel so far. My wish is that he’s difficult at paintings writing the second one of what's guaranteed to be a hugely-successful sequence. motion picture humans might be in every single place this one.” —Les Edgerton, writer of The Bitch, The Rapist, The real, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping, Lagniappe and others

“With an interesting mixture of local American folklore and the newest in cutting edge guns expertise, Jack Getze takes you on a trip that has attainable written demanding around the storyline. A mystery that chills. He asks what if a deadly weapon fell into the arms of somebody who was once enthusiastic about gratifying the wildest needs of his ancestors? Then he throws jointly a neighborhood reporter and a rebellious ace flyer and units them either opposed to a clock that's racing in the direction of one of many worst mess ups within the heritage of America.” —Gordon Brown, writer of 4 crime mystery novels set in Scotland and the USA and a co-founder and director of the crime writing pageant Bloody Scotland

“The Black Kachina indicates Jack Getze isn't really a one-trick pony. a big departure from his Austin Carr series—which is usually excellent—with all of the parts required to be a mainstream bestseller.” —Dana King, Shamus-award nominated writer of Resurrection Mall

“Getze has that unusual skill of having the ability to inform a hell of a narrative with simply the correct amount of darkish humor. continually a winner!” Terrence McCauley, award-winning writer of The James Hicks sequence

“It’s a frightening job to maintain a narrative complicated and suspenseful whereas making the major gamers come upon so colourful and convincing. Jack Getze makes it appear effortless.” —Erin Williams, The Paperback Stash