Nightwing (novel)
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First edition (publ. Norton)
Nightwing is a 1977 thriller novel by Martin Cruz Smith,[1] 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.
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Categories:
- 1977 American novels
- American horror novels
- American thriller novels
- Novels by Martin Cruz Smith
- Native American novels
- American novels adapted into films
- Novels set in the United States
- Southwestern United States in fiction
- W. W. Norton & Company books
- 1970s thriller novel stubs