The Haunted Mesa
by:
Louis L'Amour (author)
The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,” and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned...
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The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,” and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn of the astonishing world of the Anasazi and discover the most extraordinary frontier ever encountered.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553270228 (0553270222)
Publish date: April 1st 1988
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Mike Ragland is the hero and sole point-of-view of Louis L'Amour's "science fiction" novel, The Haunted Mesa. When Mike receives a letter from a friend, Erik Hokart, asking him to meet him in the New Mexico desert where he's building a house on a mesa, Mike answers the call, spurred by the letter's ...
Much better than I expected a Louis L'amour book to be...but he tended to just lay everything out on the table. Everyone's emotions, motivations, everything! It was a little...insulting as a reader. Still, I enjoyed it.