Black Wing

Above the precipice a lone eagle circled. Two three four times it floated across a half-dozen spots of living flesh six men ascending painfully up the cliff face praying for wings like his.<br /><br />Deep in the winter of 1896 Dan Skinner and his younger brother André flee into the icy windswept mountains of British Columbia barely ahead of a contingent of Mounties and their Tsimshian tracker Tom LaCross once a friend and mentor to Dan. In the brutal relentless cat and mouse chase that ensues some of these men will fall but for the survivors a collision of cultures awaits far ahead in the wilderness. <br /><br />As history painfully unwinds at a dire time for the Native Peoples and environmental disaster follows the destruction of their way of life Black Wing introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: two friends torn apart by racial hatred a Native shaman with formidable power a wife determined to reunite with her lost husband a band of Native people fighting to preserve their ways...and generations later a descendant who takes on the quest for ecological balance. <br /><br />In gorgeous sensory lyrical prose author David Campiche has filtered his meticulous research on First Nations history and traditions into a nail-biting thriller that pulses with grief and rage at all that's been lost. Black Wing is a banquet for the senses a symphony for the emotions an elegy for what's gone and a clarion call for what needs to be done.