Stealing Fire
Navajo Detective Yazzie Goldman is hired to protect famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright from gangsters. A loan shark demands Wright pay him $25,000 immediately. Goldman also learns that someone is after the sketches to Wright’s Guggenheim Museum project. It is 1948, and Wright is currently involved in a landscaping project near Phoenix, Arizona. Goldman decides to take Wright to his home in Santa Fe, while Wright’s crew, along with Goldman’s wife Iris, travels to Arizona.
Because of dangers to his own family, Goldman is forced to hide Wright at a Navajo reservation in New Mexico, where Director John Ford is making a movie that stars John Wayne and Shirley Temple. They are visited by FBI agents, who have been tailing Wright for questioning concerning possible sedition activities in the 1930s. To complicate matters even further, Iris is eyewitness to a murder.
Winner of lifetime achievement awards for western writing, Win Blevins, along with his wife Meredith Blevins, have portrayed an interesting protagonist in Goldman. The story has many twist and turns. As the plot thickens and the tale becomes more confusing, the author is able to maintain an engaging story. I highly recommend this novel, which is well-written with an exciting conclusion.
