The Charm: A Southwestern Supernatural Thriller - Softcover

Adam Niswander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930997159 ISBN 13: 9781930997158

Publisher: Prime Books, 2002

Synopsis

When an archaeologist inadvertently releases a demon from an ancient ruin, shamans from twelve different tribes must join together to defeat it

About this title

From Library Journal:

Niswander's first novel, part of a planned trilogy, draws heavily on Native American mysticism and Arizona locales, evidently the author's strengths. A demon traveling as a dust devil is accidentally released from its ancient prison and attacks villages in New Mexico and Arizona. As their ancestors once did, the medicine men of the Southwest Indian tribes must unite to recapture the demon. They are aided by a weatherman who uses radar to track the dust devil and an archaeologist who finds the Charm--the key to the demon's recapture. Unfortunately, the plot desperately needs some tightening: most of the novel is spent gathering the medicine men, while the demon's rampage is brief and unfrightening. Southwestern residents may enjoy the local color and points of reference, and devotees of Native American culture may appreciate the author's pains with his subjects, but they are small rewards for getting through the narrative.
- Robert C. Moore, DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. Information Svcs., North Billerica, Mass.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Western meets horror in Adam Niswander's genre-bending tale of Native Americans and white men banding together to save the world from a beast born of ancient evils, freed from its desert imprisonment by an archeologist and his favorite student.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prime Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1930997159
• ISBN 13: 9781930997158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236