Zack Tolliver, FBI Books
The steep ochre cliffs and hot barren mesas of the vast Navajo Indian Reservation in the American Southwest harbor dark mysteries only the local inhabitants understand. Following the death of his wife and son during childbirth JOHN ROUNDTREE has become a bitter recluse, seldom seen outside his neglected house during the day. Rumors of strange figures seen in the dark of night convince the townsfolk that Roundtree is practicing the dark arts. So when hunting guide EAGLE FEATHER and his two clients stumble across the broken body of a little white girl on a lonely mesa top the people naturally suspect Roundtree. The authorities send for FBI Agent ZACK TOLLIVER to assist in the investigation. The young victim has been clawed and there are bear tracks nearby. But when Zack and Eagle Feather follow the tracks they mysteriously change mid-stride to barefoot human prints. Zack tracks the killer on horseback deep into the wild desolate countryside and encounters a terrifying presence during the night. His trail leads him to Roundtree's house and a confrontation with the recluse and finally the case is solved...or is it? Months later another little girl's body is found 500 miles away in southern California. Are the cases connected? And if so, who or what is doing all this, anyway? Some evil force is at play.
When old friend Marty O'Bannon, a San Francisco Homicide Detective, calls FBI Agent Zack Tolliver early one morning with news of a third murder victim, her throat ravaged as if by an animal, Zack agrees to assist him with the investigation. But Zack's responsibilities at the Navajo Indian Reservation prevent him from leaving and so he send his friend Eagle Feather, a local hunting guide, in his stead. But what Eagle Feather discovers inevitably draws Zack to the city and into the vortex of a deadly mystery.
One farm worker disappears, another takes his place, yet the numbers stay the same. Rancher Rufus Reyes isn’t fooled. His operation is small, he knows everyone. But then another worker disappears, no one takes his place. The man’s wife is hysterical, but she won’t talk. Reyes needs help. For FBI Agent Zack Tolliver a pleasure trip to the Central Coast of California turns into dangerous business when he becomes immersed in a case involving drug smuggling, rival cartels, murder, and an old enemy. The clues won’t add up, the victims pile up, the mystery grows, and the danger deepens. ZACA is the third novel in the Zack Tolliver FBI mystery series from R Lawson Gamble. It is a fast reading crime mystery with a dash of paranormal.
Zack Tolliver, FBI, rushes home to Tuba City, Arizona after he learns his friend Eagle Feather was attacked by a mountain lion and the Navajo guide's client is seriously injured. Zack knows the only cure for his friend's guilt is to hunt the cat down. But he quickly learns this is no ordinary animal, and it will be no ordinary hunt.
In this fifth novel of the Zack Tolliver, FBI murder mystery series, Zack and Eagle Feather face a murder/suicide enacted as an old-fashioned western gunfight. It appears history is repeating itself in the exact same location...or does someone want them to think so?
A murder, Mormon mysteries, and a cave full of bones. Zack Tolliver left the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be with his family but when his niece is threatened in the aftermath of the horrific murder of a high school classmate, Zack responds. He learns clues may reside in old bones in a hidden cave on the summit of Canaan Mountain. There is another murder. Some powerful force doesn't want the bones exposed. Zack begins to unravel a conspiracy which potentially involves activist ranchers, the local sheriff's department, Mormon fundamentalists, high-powered state politicians, and secrets carefully guarded for over a hundred years.
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. He career begins now in Navajo Nation as a liaison between the FBI and the Navajo Nation Police - and no one from the Academy is here to hold his hand!
They came down from Oregon Territory in 1864 to tend sheep after a narrow escape from an Indian attack, hoping a peaceful life in the verdant valley of Las Cruces, California would heal Pru’s damaged nerves. But violence even beyond what they had already endured awaited them. They were found beaten, stabbed, and burned in their cabin. Their murders were never solved. That was then. But now, Zack Tolliver, FBI, is called to investigate the murder of a woman found near the same murder site, her body burnt beyond recognition, and strange metal bands as if from a hoop skirt melted around her. Was history repeating itself?
Modern science and high technology come up against deeply rooted cultures and ancient rituals in this Zack Tolliver, FBI, story, where the Eagle Mountains are surrounded by the goblin rocks and barren flats of Joshua Tree National Park. A world-class scientist goes missing while consulting for a design team constructing a huge electric storage battery from the deserted pits of the old Kaiser Iron mines. Did this eccentric world-renown hydrologist simply wander off? Or was his fate more ominous? The project moves ahead, but FBI Supervisory Agent Janice Hooper asks Zack to take a look. When someone plants a bomb in his Jeep the day he arrives, Zack realizes there is something more at stake. Soon he finds himself in a desperate duel with an unknown assassin who may very well be more than his match.