Shadow of the Raven

David Sundstrand has written a thriller with all the suspense and terror of the roughest big city and set it against the harsh background of the vast Mojave Desert, where it is possible to kill a man simply by abandoning him without water or shoes. At the center of Sundstrands stirring tale is Francisco Flynn, son of an Irish railroad man and a woman of the Paiute tribe. Flynn is an officer in Land Management but has more concern for the deserts threatened animal life. He hates the wealthy sportsmen who hire poverty-stricken Indian guides to lead them to the sheep they can shoot for trophy heads to hang on their walls. Sundstrand slowly pulls together the ominous connections between the human and animal deaths and the sudden appearances and disappearances of a man on a Harley who could be the devil himself.