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    Second Sunrise: A Lee Nez Novel
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    Second Sunrise: A Lee Nez Novel

    By Aimée Thurlo and David Thurlo

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    Second Sunrise is the first in a series of novels featuring Lee Nez, an undead hero who lives in a world where magic and monsters are all too real. The Thurlos' skill at evoking of Southwestern settings and Navajo philosophies and lifestyles combines with their ability to create strong plots and solid characters in this fast-paced, action-filled story of supernatural suspense.

    Sixty years ago New Mexico patrolman Lee Nez and his partner foiled the hijacking of an American military convoy transporting nuclear material. At the end of the firefight, all of the soldiers and Lee's partner were dead-and Lee's life was forever transformed.

    Now a nightwalker, the Navajo equivalent of a vampire, Lee lives with one foot in the human world and one in a world full of monsters. In 2002, Lee Nez is a cop again, now known as Leonard Hawk. His more-than-human abilities have made him the target of murderous Navajo witches-skinwalkers-who want his powers for themselves. When cool, capable FBI agent Diane Lopez questions Lee about an incident on the Navajo Reservation, Lee can't tell her than the people he killed that night were skinwalkers out for his blood.

    Lee and Diane are attacked by a wolf pack. Diane is stunned when the wolf she shoots shapeshifts into a woman before dying. On the run, Lee tells Diane of his true nature-and that he is convinced the vampire who made him one of the undead has returned to New Mexico in the guise of German Air Force pilot Wolfgang Muller. Muller has been much too close to the place where Lee hid the plutonium six decades ago-a trap for the vampire, set with the inhuman patience of a nightwalker.

    Using police and FBI resources as well as Navajo healing magics and his own supernatural powers, Lee and Diane hunt for Muller and his undead offspring. Muller was to sell the nuclear material to the highest bidder-what does he care if some humans blow up some other humans, as long as he can find fresh sources of blood? When Muller takes Diane captive, Lee swears he won't lose another partner to the vampire's evil.

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781429914956
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    Second Sunrise: A Lee Nez Novel
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    Aimée Thurlo

    David and Aimee Thurlo are award-winning authors who, together, wrote romantic suspense for Harlequin Intrigue until Aimee’s passing in 2014. David continues to write and maintain their web site at http://www.aimeeanddavidthurlo.com. The Thurlo novels have been translated into a dozen languages and are available worldwide.

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    • 4/5
      The first book in a series that has a POV, Lee Nez, who is a Navajo State Police Officer, who becomes a vampire. It is set in New Mexico, and opens in 1945. Nazi spies are trying to steal plutonium. They are vampires, and one kills Lee's rookie partner and makes Lee a vampire.He gets the help of a medicine man who can reduce his vampire-ness, but not completely cure him. He can go out during the day, but he is slower than a full vampire, heals slower, and still ages - though more slowly than a human.The story then jumps to the modern day. Lee has moved around and changed identities in the past 60 years. He has been trying to track and catch the vampire who killed his partner, but has no luck. He was married to a women he loved deeply, who knew his secret, but she was killed by Navajo Skinwalkers. Lee spends the whole book mourning and it gets tiresome.He has become a state police officer again, under a new identity. He is being stalked by the Skinwalkers, and they are making a public mess that handicaps him with his superiors. Skinwalkers are Navajo witches and they can smell vampire blood. They want his blood to use in their rituals to make them immortal. They shift into animal form. and when he kills them he has large dead animals at his crime scene or naked dead humans if they shift back. Very hard to explain.Lee is placed on leave and is forced to work with the FBI. He has been using his police power to investigate some German pilots who are training at a nearby air base.Eventually Lee and the FBI agent team up. She sees the Skinwalkers and believes his story about vampires. They then work together to catch the Germans red-handed as they try to retrieve the plutonium, and to catch the Skinwalkers, who have now killed police/FBI.The story devolves into chases and battles and stories to outwit the police and FBI. Its good, but it is a little story stretched out. I would have like more meat. and more Navajo culture. The series has 4 books and I will read them, because I expect it will get better.
    • 3/5
      Interesting story in the way of Anne Rice. My biggest complaint is all of the typographic errors. It seems like this was scanned and then was processed with OCR. It detracts from the read trying to figure out what the words are supposed to be. Otherwise I probably would have given it 4 stars.