Canyon of the Haunted Shadows (Yaqui Gold Stories)

Sam Coffey, introduced in the 2003 Clint Walker/Kirby Jonas novel Yaqui Gold (pronounced YAW-key) has barely recovered from the wounds given him by the war-like Yaqui Indians before, needing a stake to keep his Yaqui Gold Ranch going, he and Tom Vanse, his best friend and ranching partner, hire on to lead a group of archaeologists into the Santa Catalina Mountains, outside of Tucson, in search of a secret too astounding to reveal.High in the remotest reaches of the Catalinas, the expedition is camped one night when the earthquake of 1888 strikes, putting a mighty fear into them all. Yet the quake, in this case, is their friend, for it serves to open up the hidden cave they have been seeking, and here in this cave Sam Coffey and Tom Vanse discover a find so important that it will shake the greatest anthropological minds in the world. But there is one in the Santa Catalinas who believes that everything found in that cave belongs to him. And this one is stronger and fiercer than them all......This book was co-authored with actor Clint Walker, who came up with the plot while I did the writing. Creative differences caused us to split our partnership, and legal issues that continue cropping up have forced me finally simply to pull Clint's name off the cover. The thought makes me sad, because the book would not have existed without him, but sometimes evil has to win, simply for there to be peace.