2025 Spur Award Finalist Bruce Hartman returns with another spellbinding western:The White Nagual.
A nagual is a demon tainted with death, the Apache shaman said. He lives in an animal soul but as a stranger, an intruder, like a white man in these mountains. Every nagual starts as a man, and a nagual who starts as a white man is the worst kind.
To stave off an Apache uprising, army scout John Pierce is ordered to hunt down a deranged killer in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. The Apaches blame the crimes on a demon of death they call the white nagual, but Pierce knows the killer as his best friend and former commanding officer Andrew Brodie. An elemental tale of good and evil and their shifting shapes in the struggle for the human heart.
‘Fast-paced action, high drama, exciting confrontations, and unexpected outcomes... The White Nagual is a cat-and-mouse game of confrontation and realization which tempers a manhunt with deeper questions of spiritual and psychological recovery.’’ – Midwest Book Review
Bruce Hartman’s Legend of Lost Basin was a 2025Spur Award Finalist forBest Traditional Western Novel and winner of the 2025 Peacemaker Award for Best First Western Novel.
Genre: Western
A nagual is a demon tainted with death, the Apache shaman said. He lives in an animal soul but as a stranger, an intruder, like a white man in these mountains. Every nagual starts as a man, and a nagual who starts as a white man is the worst kind.
To stave off an Apache uprising, army scout John Pierce is ordered to hunt down a deranged killer in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. The Apaches blame the crimes on a demon of death they call the white nagual, but Pierce knows the killer as his best friend and former commanding officer Andrew Brodie. An elemental tale of good and evil and their shifting shapes in the struggle for the human heart.
‘Fast-paced action, high drama, exciting confrontations, and unexpected outcomes... The White Nagual is a cat-and-mouse game of confrontation and realization which tempers a manhunt with deeper questions of spiritual and psychological recovery.’’ – Midwest Book Review
Bruce Hartman’s Legend of Lost Basin was a 2025Spur Award Finalist forBest Traditional Western Novel and winner of the 2025 Peacemaker Award for Best First Western Novel.
Genre: Western
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