​TURQUOISE MAN is a Southwestern adventure-thriller about the magic of our short existence, our quest for meaning, and the possibility of extreme longevity.

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In a remote Northern Arizona canyon outside of Sedona, a nearly-naked Native American man wanders dead-center into a field-test of NSA’s newest satellite-surveillance grid. Set up as a low-risk, practice-run on domestic soil before moving the system overseas; NSA intends to observe the September maneuver of the First Arizona Militia—a “beer’n bullets” social club.

 

The intruder eats flowers, talks to insects, and plays his packrat-chewed violin under the neon-sweep of the Milky Way.

 

 Confused by the distraction, Dr. Marques “Bugman” Beauchrist, tweaks the high-tech system from his cliff-ledge camp.  As both a world-class entomologist and NSA’s oldest field agent, Bugman knows this will be his last mission—gun-weary, sleep-deprived, cancer-riddled. 

 

NSA’s Mission Intelligence Team—watching the streaming HD feed from the comfort of their Ft. Meade, Maryland swivel chairs—jokingly suggest that this odd wild-man somehow matches the profile of Kokopelli; the Southwest’s 1,000-year-old, flute-dancing mystery.  As the intruder’s real identity unfolds, he transforms an unexpected nuclear tragedy into a global movement of gratitude, redemption, and environmental hope. 

 

The mystery braids into an unexpected kaleidoscope of characters—from a scuff-heeled cowgirl to a Japanese Ainu priest; from an abuse-hardened, female bodyguard to a pearl-heavy, courtroom lioness; from a rib-bone coyote to an extinct turquoise butterfly.