R. Lawson Gamble

"Los Alamos is a small town on its way to big things. It is a growing tourist destination yet retains its pastoral charm. The history of the Los Alamos Valley can be viewed as a microcosm of the history of California, for it contains within its span Chumash Indians, mission neophytes and horse herds, Spanish land grants, cattle ranches, vaqueros, bandits, oil bonanzas, a narrow-gauge railroad, fertile soil for bountiful crops, vast vineyards, tourism,...

Only months removed from NAT (New Agent Trainee) status at the National Academy at Quantico, Zack Tolliver, FBI, stands on the dusty tarmac at the Tuba City airfield and watches the small plane he came in on becoming a black dot in an endless blue sky. Everything he has known from a middle-class upbringing in Maryland has gone with it. His career begins now in Navajo Nation as a liaison between the FBI and the Navajo Nation Police - and no one from...