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WORKS IN PROGRESS

By JOHN NEWMAN

Buffalo Dreamers and Peyote Moon are the first of several additional fully conceived novels that are based on the Sam Comstock character and themes developed in these novels: the sustaining power of nature and love in the face of cataclysm. The stories can be categorized as mainstream eco-ethnic thrillers, with cross-over elements of personal transformation and magic realism. They are set in the modern West, and focus on a hard-luck charactor who teams up with a variety of Native American professionals, shamans, peyotists, and blood-crazed warriors to confront the great demons of our times.

The novels in development are:

Predatory Instinct, about a wilderness big-game hunt that leads to pursuit by a bloodthirsty band of human body-parts poachers.

The Ghost of Ishi, about the haunting presence of the last wild Indian – Ishi – in his native habitat along Deer Creek in northern California, which builds to a modern case of genocide.

The Sea of La Mancha, a novel about the harsh consequences of a man who pursues his dream of fishing for tuna off the Pacific coast.

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