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In the ruins of an ancient Mayan city, archaeologist Elizabeth Butler confronts the shade of a long-dead
priestess. And enters the twilight world of Mayan magic and Mayan blood sacrifice.
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тАЬMurphyтАЩs sharp behavioral observation, her rich Mayan background and the revolving door of fantasy
and reality honorably recall the novels of Margaret Atwood.тАЭ
тАФPublishers Weekly
тАЬPat Murphy has mixed fantasy, horror and contemporary realism in a literate and absorbing tale.тАЭ
тАФChicago Sun Times
тАЬMurphy splendidly captures the atmosphere and spirit of the dig, and adds a well-realized
backdropтАжImpressive archaeological fantasy in dramatic Yucat├бn setting.тАЭ
тАФKirkus Reviews




PAT MURPHY
THE


Falling Woman
ATOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are ficitional, and any resemblance to real people or
incidents is purely coincidental.
THE FALLING WOMAN Copyright ┬й 1986 by Pat Murphy
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
First printing: November 1986
First mass market printing: September 1987
A TOR Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. 49 West 24 Street New York, N.Y. 10010
Cover art by Peter Scanlon
ISBN: 0-812-54620-2 CAN. ED.: 0-812-54621-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 86-50322 Printed in the United States of America 0987654321




For my mother, a remarkable woman who taught me many things,
and
For Richard, who swam with me in the sacred cenote at Dzibilchalt├║n




This is the true account, when all was vague, all was silence, without motion and the sky was still empty. This is the
first account, the first narrative. There was neither man nor beast, no bird, fish nor crab, no trees, rocks, caves nor
canyons, no plants and no shrubs. Only the sky was there.
 тАФPopol Vuh of the Quich├й Maya