Ghost Walker: Return of the Shadow Warriors

Ghost Walker is a ‘love affair’ with America; its land, its beauty, its people, and its own uniquely American spirit. And though much of this very disturbing and, perhaps, prophetic story takes place in pre-war 1937, its farther reaching impact, this far from simple tale itself begins and ends right here in our own equally troubled and frightening present.

For the first time actual Native American legend more appropriately explores the terrifying controversy of the coming of The Fifth World. It explains it in terms that perhaps best describe the causes for the insanity of the world around us we are now experiencing; all while on a long ago manhunt for a murderer that took place in such remote and desolate locations as America’s highest mountain peaks along the Great Divide and the majestic desert plains of the American Southwest, in New Mexico and the wide open expanses of Arizona’s magnificent Monument Valley.

Navaho, Hopi, and indeed all other Native American legends speak of this approaching Red Tide, prophesize the end to our own ‘Glittering’ world—The Fourth World—and the beginning of The Fifth Cycle that some believe will coincide with the completion of the intricate astrological Mayan stone calendar on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012... just a short while from now. We all know it only in Christian terms as the so called End of Days. ...But is it truly?

Ghost Walker is far more than just an epic adventure and love story with a decidedly Native American influence, though true love does finally find our two main characters when it matters most. It is about much more than a tale of a cold and bitter manhunt on horseback for a brutal killer in the dead of winter beneath the snow-covered sawbacks of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains—all while under some very strange and often mystical and paranormal circumstances.

The Depression era of 1937 (that year in particular) was a time of intense political and economic strife that helped set the very foundation for a whole generation. Often referred to as “America’s Greatest Generation”, the World War II era of our fathers and grandfathers, the times (then) reflected much of what is happening in today’s economy, with today’s political unrest and in today’s world and social climate. But maybe more unsettling is that it ‘mirrors’ much of the same events, the same situations, the same emotions we feel right now. It draws parallels in such a way that perhaps it will give you a far greater understanding of what was happening then, in the past; that it will help draw you closer to these long suffering characters, ‘connect’ you to those terrifyingly similar circumstances that in any other time but our own would be virtually impossible—to understand at last something so intensely, intimately that had happened at a time in perhaps man’s darkest history, because we are all threatened with very much the same things today in our own lives and our own day to day living.

But Ghost Walker is about so much more than this constant ‘preoccupation’ of ours; than some historical fiction set in the personal and political turmoil of The Great Depression and the pre-dawn of the thermo nuclear period; about so many more possibilities than the end of one world and the beginning of another, endings mind you that don’t necessarily mean they have to end badly. They can simply mean a new hope, a new beginning, indeed a new opportunity; a brave new world that will perhaps help reshape yet another generation—one like the Native Americans that will respect and look after this big beautiful blue planet that we have so abused and ignored so much until lately.

As for those doomsayers, those handwringers that fear change, fear life, fear the unknown, and the never-ending 'ever' ending “End of the World”; for those who say that America’s greatness is all behind us, I can only say this to them now. There may indeed be some very hard times that still lay ahead—for all of us. We certainly didn’t get in this mess overnight or by ourselves. And it will take time to find our way out of the darkness that still lies before us. But if you believe in and understand ‘anything’ at all about this country and what it stands for (its people in particular) then America’s greatest generation is not just ‘one’ of many in its distant or even recent past, but the one that is always in the making. And as we are indeed one people made up of all the people of the globe, we share in its hope for a brighter future and a lasting peace, as we welcome all into—The Fifth World.