Navajo Afterglow (Paperback)

Set in New Mexico, Navajo Afterglow is a novel about injustices done to Native Americans by the federal government. Two Navajo uranium miners, Sam and Johnny, contract lung cancer from working in the mines. They hire a lawyer to find out about compensation, and in the process discover a network of government conspiracy, from refusal to make the mines a safer place to work, to tests conducted on the miners to determine the effects of high levels of radiation. Set between 1950 and 1970, this story is based partly on fact, and includes an investigation that breaks through a "classified information" barrier, a romance, a scalping, a trial, and a fair amount of Navajo lore.