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WORKS IN PROGRESS


By JOHN NEWMAN

Peyote Moon is the first of several additional fully conceived novels that are based on the Sam Comstock character and this novel’s theme: 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 West, and focus on a hard-luck game warden 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:

Buffalo Dreamers,
a contemporary eco-ethnic thriller about a herd of enchanted Yellowstone Buffalo rescued from a government extermination program. The rescue is carried out by a band of Native American and White warrior-dreamers, who wage a wilderness battle across five states against the combined forces of the police, military, and the cattle industry.

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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