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Star Song #1
Evil Chasing Way
Set against the night country of New Mexico is a mystery that has never been solved. The novel follows the footsteps of a young reporter who has been assigned to witness a series of bizarre cattle mutilations. In his search for truth, he interviews tribal elders, scientists, FBI agents, state police, mediums, mystics, cattle and horse ranchers, and many other observers living in the high desert of northern New Mexico. One of his interviewees is a scientist who claims to have been taken aboard a “star car”. A Navajo medicine man confirms that he was abducted as well. A tribal friend tells the author: “There is a hole in the sky and things are coming out of it.”
PRAISE FOR EVIL CHASING WAY
“If you’re hungry for a book to keep you up past bedtime—with all the lights on—this tale is for you. Based on real unsolved mysteries, Evil Chasing Way deals with startling animal deaths that some attribute to aliens, skinwalkers, secret government research or a force of true evil. This is New Mexico’s own X File anchored in Hausman’s elegant prose and finely tuned descriptions of the Southwestern landscape.”
—Anne Hillerman, author of Song of the Lion
“Evil Chasing Way is something special. Part mystery, part magical realism, part personal journey, and very much mystical, I was irresistibly drawn into the story. I was captivated by the narrator, an inquisitive journalist seeking answers to the mysterious and often grotesque cattle and horse mutilations that once plagued southern Colorado and much of New Mexico. Experts raced from incident to incent, but credible explanations were few and far between. What happens when reality defies known science and rationality? That’s where Gerald Hausman begins. Then he draws deep from his well of knowledge of Navajo story and culture. (Think Tony Hillerman on steroids.) He takes you on a journey from the arroyos and high forests of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the craggy stone crevasses of the Grand Canyon. Along the way you meet shuffling skin walkers, extraterrestrials, and crafty coyotes. This is more than a novel. It’s an experience you won’t forget and it will leave you hungry for more.”
—Peter Eichstaedt, author of Borderlands and The Dangerous Divide
PRAISE FOR EVIL CHASING WAY
“If you’re hungry for a book to keep you up past bedtime—with all the lights on—this tale is for you. Based on real unsolved mysteries, Evil Chasing Way deals with startling animal deaths that some attribute to aliens, skinwalkers, secret government research or a force of true evil. This is New Mexico’s own X File anchored in Hausman’s elegant prose and finely tuned descriptions of the Southwestern landscape.”
—Anne Hillerman, author of Song of the Lion
“Evil Chasing Way is something special. Part mystery, part magical realism, part personal journey, and very much mystical, I was irresistibly drawn into the story. I was captivated by the narrator, an inquisitive journalist seeking answers to the mysterious and often grotesque cattle and horse mutilations that once plagued southern Colorado and much of New Mexico. Experts raced from incident to incent, but credible explanations were few and far between. What happens when reality defies known science and rationality? That’s where Gerald Hausman begins. Then he draws deep from his well of knowledge of Navajo story and culture. (Think Tony Hillerman on steroids.) He takes you on a journey from the arroyos and high forests of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the craggy stone crevasses of the Grand Canyon. Along the way you meet shuffling skin walkers, extraterrestrials, and crafty coyotes. This is more than a novel. It’s an experience you won’t forget and it will leave you hungry for more.”
—Peter Eichstaedt, author of Borderlands and The Dangerous Divide
228 pages, Paperback
Published September 20, 2017
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Gerald Hausman
131 books18 followersGerald Andrews Hausman is a storyteller and award-winning author of books about Native America, animals, mythology, and West Indian culture. Hausman comes from a long line of storytellers and educators, and has published over seventy books for both children and adults.
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November 26, 2017
“Evil Chasing Way” takes you on a wild and non-stop journey through the plains and mesas of the Southwest, to places you may never have been: a dance at an ancient pueblo on the Rio Grande; deep within the Navajo reservation; to White Sands proving grounds, where a space ship hoovers in the distance. The story introduces you to creatures you may never have seen: oversized white coyotes with glowing eyes; shape-shifting owls and skin-walkers. Mad scientists. UFOs. All in search of an answer to how and why horses and cattle were being ritualistically killed and mutilated throughout the Southwest. Your guide is Jack Andrews, an earnest, curious, myth-loving news reporter who is on his own fear-fraught Hero’s Journey Underlying the adventure story is a lovely, gentle love story, one that contrasts with the horror of the mutilations and gives comfort and balance to both Jack and the reader.
Hausman is a gifted writer, a poet and a storyteller who has immersed himself in mythology, especially that of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. He weaves that knowledge and love of the people into this book. “Evil Chasing Way” is the first in the Star Song Series, I was glad to know that more adventures with Jack await us in “The Hand Trembler.”
Hausman is a gifted writer, a poet and a storyteller who has immersed himself in mythology, especially that of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. He weaves that knowledge and love of the people into this book. “Evil Chasing Way” is the first in the Star Song Series, I was glad to know that more adventures with Jack await us in “The Hand Trembler.”
August 21, 2018
Good Read
This book was a little deeper than I originally thought. It took me through an the spiritual and mental growth of the person in the story, which was presented artfully through the storyline.
This book was a little deeper than I originally thought. It took me through an the spiritual and mental growth of the person in the story, which was presented artfully through the storyline.
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