The Fallen Man is a Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...

 novel about a corpse found by a group of mountain climbers on Ship Rock or "the rock with wings".

The book features the characters Joe Leaphorn

Joe Leaphorn

Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is a fictional character created by American mystery writer Tony Hillerman, one of two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police that feature in a number of novels. The other officer is Jim Chee.- Profile :...

 and Jim Chee

Jim Chee

Jim Chee is one of two Navajo Tribal Police detectives in a series of mystery novels by Tony Hillerman. Unlike his superior Joe Leaphorn, the "Legendary Lieutenant", Chee wants to be a staunch believer in traditional Navajo culture; indeed, he is studying to be a traditional healer at the same...

. In this, Joe Leaphorn has recently retired, and Jim Chee is acting Lieutenant, who must learn the tricks of the trade from the retired Leaphorn.

The plot also involves the theft of cattle, in which they are being secretly lured with bait onto trucks.

Regular readers will spot characters Chee and Leaphorn from previous books.