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Anna Pigeon, caught in constant internal conflict during a federally funded infrastructure dig, struggles to make sense of what happened and why evidence has seemingly disappeared. As administration tensions escalate and machinery threatens archaeological integrity, Anna investigates competing explanations while facing pressure from park leadership and the relentless fear of losing ancient clues forever.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>ILL WIND Nevada Barr  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>G. P. Putnam's Sons Publishers Since 1838 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Copyright © 1995 by Nevada Barr  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN 0-399-14015-8  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Printed in the United States of America 1  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>NO GRAVEYARDS; that bothered Anna. People died. Unless you ate them, burned them, or mailed them to a friend, the bodies had to go somewhere. In any event, there would at least be bones. A civilization that lived and died for six hundred years should leave a mountain of bones. No graveyards and then no people. Inhabitants cooking, weaving, farming one day, then, the next, gone. Pots still on cold ashes, doormats rotting indoorways, tools lying beside half-finished jobs.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>So: an invading army swooped down and massacred everybody. Then where were the bashed-in skulls? Chipped bone fragments? Teeth sown like corn?  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>A plague: the American version of the Black Death, an antiquated form of Captain Tripps, killing two out of every three people. The survivors abandoning a desolated community, carting thousands and thousands of dead bodies with them? Not bloody likely. Not in a society without benefit of the wheel.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Once people got factored into an equation all bets were off; still, there ought to be corpses. Anna couldn't think of any civilization that couldn't be counted on to leave corpses and garbage for the next generation.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>A hand smacked down on the Formica and Anna started in her chair.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>\"Where were you?\" hissed Alberta Stinson, head of Interpretation for Chapin Mesa.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>\"Anywhere but here, Al,\" Anna whispered back. She dragged a hand down her face to clear it of dreams and looked surreptitiously at her watch. The staff meeting had been dragging on for two hours. The coffee was gone and there never had been any doughnuts.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Stinson poked Anna in the ribs with a blunt forefinger. \"Stay awake. The Boys are on a rampage.\" Al always referred to Mesa Verde's administration rather disdainfully as \"The Boys.\" Stinson was fifteen pounds over what the glossy magazines recommended, with salt-and-pepper hair that looked as if it had been cut with pinking shears. Leading tours, giving programs, wandering the myriad ruins on the mesas, she had a face creased by the weather from forehead to chin, and the skin around her eyes was crinkled from squinting against the sun's glare. Near as Anna could tell, the woman had but two passions in life: discovering why the Old Ones had vanished and seeing to it that any despoilers of their relics did likewise.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Anna pulled Stinson's yellow pad toward her. Beneath APs sketches of nooses, guillotines, and other means of mayhem, she scribbled: \"No help here. I'm a lowly GS-7 . No teeth.\"  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Al snorted.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Thirty minutes had elapsed since Anna had mentally checked out and still the debate raged. Money had come down from Congress, scads of the stuff, allocated for the digging up and replacing of the antiquated waterline serving the homes and public buildings of Mesa Verde National Park. Since May heavy machinery and heated arguments had roared over the ancient land. Meetings had been called and called off on a weekly basis. The resultant acrimony clogged the high desert air like dust from the ditcher. As always in small towns, toxins trickled down. When the powers that be waged war, the peasants took sides. 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