whilst a top-secret weapon is going lacking on Colonel Maggie Black’s watch, her honor and her profession are at the line. there have been airmen who stated the Air Force’s most sensible lady wrestle pilot may by no means be an analogous after wasting her arm in Iraq, yet cutting-edge prosthetics have made Maggie larger than new, and she’s no longer approximately to lose what she battled so challenging to regain.

But discovering her experimental missile won’t be easy—thanks to the revenge-fueled goals of Asdrubal Torres, whose hallucinatory come across with the nice Spirit demanding situations him to fill up Lake Cahuilla, the traditional inland sea that when coated a lot of southern California. to meet his blessed undertaking, Torres wishes wizardry and weaponry, and the nice Spirit offers either: Magic, within the type of a celebrated shaman’s basket again to the tribal museum by means of San Diego reporter Jordan Scott; could, within the kind of Maggie Black’s top-secret weapon that falls from the sky.

From that second, it’s a race opposed to time for Maggie and Jordan, who jointly needs to cease Torres from destroying Hoover Dam—and turning the Colorado River right into a tsunami that might kill millions and wipe out the Southwest’s water offer. within the ultimate showdown, it’s Maggie who needs to disarm the stolen missile’s trigger—one-handed or not—and keep the day.

Praise for THE BLACK KACHINA:

“Jack Getze’s most up-to-date novel, The Black Kachina, marks the coming of a brand new superstar within the overseas mystery pantheon. flow over, Jack Reacher and make a spot on the desk for Colonel Maggie Black and her Robin, journalist Jordan Scott. Getze has simply hit it out of the park, a gargantuan tape-measure of a clout with this, his top novel thus far. My wish is that he’s tough at paintings writing the second one of what's bound to be a hugely-successful sequence. motion picture humans might be everywhere this one.” —Les Edgerton, writer of The Bitch, The Rapist, The actual, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping, Lagniappe and others

“With an interesting mixture of local American folklore and the newest in innovative guns expertise, Jack Getze takes you on a trip that has attainable written demanding around the storyline. A mystery that chills. He asks what if a deadly weapon fell into the palms of somebody who was once enthusiastic about pleasant the wildest needs of his ancestors? Then he throws jointly an area reporter and a rebellious ace flyer and units them either opposed to a clock that's racing in the direction of one of many worst failures within the historical past of America.” —Gordon Brown, writer of 4 crime mystery novels set in Scotland and the USA and a co-founder and director of the crime writing competition Bloody Scotland

“The Black Kachina exhibits Jack Getze isn't really a one-trick pony. a big departure from his Austin Carr series—which is usually excellent—with all of the parts required to be a mainstream bestseller.” —Dana King, Shamus-award nominated writer of Resurrection Mall

“Getze has that unusual skill of having the ability to inform a hell of a narrative with simply the correct amount of darkish humor. continually a winner!” Terrence McCauley, award-winning writer of The James Hicks sequence

“It’s a frightening job to maintain a narrative complicated and suspenseful whereas making the main avid gamers come upon so colourful and convincing. Jack Getze makes it look effortless.” —Erin Williams, The Paperback Stash