Evans wife, Anna, calls on Hays McKay, an Ohio security firm investigator and old friend, to look for her husband. McKay travels to New Mexico with his fianc, Deirdre, and together with a guide and his sister, they search for Evan Begay. In doing so, they become the targets of four men who are removing the gold artifacts and melting them down to sell. The McKay party finds Evan Begay and the cave, but in doing so, they set up a deadly confrontation between themselves and the thieves who have plundered the cave.
REGIS MCCAFFERTY lived in New Mexico for ten years and spent a great deal of time in the Jemez Mountains where the action for his book “the god and the gold” takes place. In addition, though not a student of the Anasazi culture, he is knowledgeable and conversant on the topic of their disappearance. And above all, he loves the high desert country of the southwest with a passion.