When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.

Admiral Atkins leads the Athena I project, developing the worlds greatest supercomputer. Its artificial intelligence discovers how to travel through time. Religiously fanatical, Admiral Atkins turns rogue. He leads six Navy SEALs to ancient Jerusalem to rescue Jesus from the Cross. If the SEALs succeed, the unintended consequence is an unrecognizable twenty-first century with continents covered by thick sheets of ice and missing seven billion people. Green Beret Colonel Robert Lake leads a small hunter-killer team of special operations troops drawn from all branches of the US military and the British SAS to intercept the SEALs. Two civilian expertsa brilliant but eccentric professor and a beautiful master linguistcomplete the team. A ruthless CIA zealot, sympathetic to the SEALs, penetrates the hunter-killer team, bent on destroying them from within. How will the Green Berets and marines match up against the deadly SEALs? How are modern weapons neutralized in close combat by Roman edged weapons? Will the temptations of the flesh in ancient Jerusalem corrupt the hot-blooded marines? What will happen when the SEALs form a relationship with Judas? Who could be opposed to saving Jesus? Will the hunter-killer team turn on Colonel Lake to aid the SEALs in their holy mission? Is the past immutable or merely fluid consciousness open to alternate histories?

As he did in his acclaimed '77: Denver, the Broncos, and a Coming of Age and his earlier nonfiction works, Terry Frei combines reporting, historical research, memoir, and opinion, discussing his varied experiences and the diverse characters-including John and Jack Elway, plus 2010 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith-he has encountered in covering Colorado, national, and international sports since he was a green sportswriter in the era of '77. Those diverse figures include Olympic heroes, Hall of Famers, world boxing champions, and other marquee athletes. He also displays his knack for narrative and inquisitive journalism, introducing readers to intriguing figures and taking them behind the scenes of some very high-profile events and settings. All this follows a blunt and unsparing assessment of the modern newspaper and sports journalism.