A Thief of Time
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- For the Terry Pratchett novel, see Thief of Time.
A Thief of Time is the eighth novel by author Tony Hillerman.
The plot involves the Anasazi, a missing archeologist, a stolen backhoe, and people who are termed "pot hunters".
Characters include Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.
In 2004 it was adapted into a TV film. It starred Adam Beach as Chee, Wes Studi as Leaphorn and Gary Farmer as capt. Largo. It also featured Graham Greene and Peter Fonda. It aired on PBS's Mystery! series and is available on DVD.
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Ellie Friedman-Bernal (Rosalia de Aragon), is suspected of selling ancient Anasazi pottery on the black market. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) are sent to investigate. Ellie's hyper-competitive colleagues, Maxie Davis (Dawn Lewis) and Randy Elliott (Lee Tergesen), claim to be clueless about her whereabouts. Hailing from a hard-scrabble farm, Maxie is an improbable success at the academic game, while East-Coast patrician Randy is more at home as a scholar. Ellie's cryptic notes lead Leaphorn and Chee to preacher/fencer Slick Nakai (Graham Greene), and his musician/accomplice Pete Etcitty (Kenneth White Eagle Wings), who later turns up dead--along with another pot poacher. Then there are the rich, unsavory collectors Richard DuMont (James Pollard) and local rancher Harrison Houk (Peter Fonda), who was the last person to see Ellie alive. If the mystery is to be solved, some nettlesome questions need to be answered: Why did Ellie trade a saddle for a kayak just before she disappeared? Why does the crippled Houk himself own a kayak
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