Bøger af J Bradley Van Tighem

Many Wolves and his wilderness village have enjoyed fifteen winters of peace and prosperity since Thorn Bird's war. Now, a new enemy threatens to take the buffalo lands away from the Penateka people. His name is Captain James McCord, but he is widely known as Lead Fingers throughout Comancheria. The Penateka and Nokoni Comanches have reunited after many winters of unrest to fight this common enemy and have asked Many Wolves, and his friend Malone, to fight at their side. During a peace talk, Many Wolves meets a mysterious man named the Green-Eyed Coyote who comes from the lands in the south. Why is he staring at me?Excerpt-"Our lands have been invaded by a predator," said Crooked Eagle. "A predator who has tasted our blood and now thirsts for it. A predator whose hunger for death only grows stronger. This predator is the taiboo called Lead Fingers. He has drawn blood from both the Nokoni and Penateka. In moons past, we could outrun our enemy's horses, hide from their trackers, and kill their men while they loaded their fire sticks. But Lead Fingers has taken this from us. He has bred horses from our horses, befriended Navoonah trackers to follow our scent, and created weapons that do not need to be loaded. Even now, he watches us from a camp less than a day's ride away."

Eight summers ago, Many Wolves killed Laughing Crow, the legendary leader of the Nokoni Comanches. And ever since that time, Many Wolves has been hiding himself deep in the unforgiving lands along the Pecos River. It's a place where few men could survive, yet he has thrived with the help of his trained hawk and wolf.Now Laughing Crow's son, Thorn Bird, is hell-bent on finding Many Wolves. Thorn Bird has asked the enigmatic warrior Malone to help him find the elusive white-skinned man with the strange animal magic. Together-and with the assistance of Thorn Bird's new Mexican friends, led by the amiable Paco-they hope to find Many Wolves... and kill him.

Many Wolves, a 12-year-old boy adopted by Lipan Apaches, is haunted by memories of mounted men with painted faces killing his white-skinned parents. When Laughing Crow, the powerful leader of the Nokoni Comanche band responsible for the killings, discovers his Lipan village and asks for the white-skinned boy in exchange for peace, Many Wolves flees. In the harsh desert wilderness, nourished by the salty waters of the Pecos River, he learns to survive alone with his trained wolf hawks. Five years later, the Nokoni leader's son is killed by a Lipan arrow, which sets Laughing Crow on a trail of blood and vengeance. Many Wolves, now hardened by nature and empowered with a gift to walk with the spirits of his animals, is forced out of seclusion to confront his nightmare and protect his Lipan village.Puha, the Comanche word for "spiritual power," is an unconventional western story set in the late 1700s, before Texas was settled with Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles: a time when vast herds of buffalo roamed the Southern Plains, grizzly bears and wolves thrived, and the Comanche rode unchallenged on painted ponies.Puha immerses the reader in a forgotten time of American History when indigenous people lived free and in harmony with nature.