Written with Evan Maxwell under the pen name Lowell Charters, this is the novelization of the 1992 film Thunderheart, starring Val Kilmer and Sam Shepard. Set on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota, it tells the story of FBI Agent Ray Levoi, who is sent to investigate a murder not only because of his skills, but in part because he is a quarter Sioux, a fact he has tried to deny all his life.