Finding Moon by Tony Hillerman

The provided text centers primarily on extensive excerpts from Tony Hillerman's novel, Finding Moon, charting the desperate mission of protagonist Malcolm "Moon" Mathias as he pursues his missing infant niece across Southeast Asia in April 1975. Amidst the collapsing governments and refugee crisis during the Vietnam War's final stages, Moon navigates bureaucracy and danger in places like Manila and Cambodia, aided by companions such as the determined Osa van Winjgaarden and the inscrutable contractor Lum Lee. Interspersed with this narrative are supplementary materials related to the author’s career, including annotations on his other popular mystery novels that feature Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The source concludes with a factual profile of the Navajo Nation, detailing its tri-partite governmental structure and affirming its unique sovereign status and trust relationship with the United States federal government.