Apache Blood

Apache Kid

De: Petra Horst

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Apache Kid
Arizona, 2013
Jason loves Annie. Nothing unusual for a twenty-year-old—under normal circumstances.
But Jason is Apache, raised on his tribe’s reservation by his grandfather. Annie, nineteen, is white, from a wealthy family. Her father is a millionaire and an influential conservative politician running for the Senate. Her brother is a respected and popular baseball player.
A relationship like theirs is still frowned upon in certain circles, especially in the world Annie comes from. Yet she refuses to let go, standing firm against the pressure from her family.
Then, something terrible happens. Annie’s brother is stabbed in the parking lot of a bar and dies later that same night. Witnesses claim they saw Jason at the scene—holding a weapon. The weapon.
And to make matters worse, he escapes arrest in a daring flight.
To most people, the matter is settled. The question of guilt seems answered, and few are willing to doubt it. Society now shows no mercy. The media feast on the story—headlines screaming for vengeance, rumors and speculation always a step ahead of the truth.
This heinous crime demands retribution. The fugitive murderer must be caught—at any cost.
Police, the FBI, and a hastily formed vigilante group hunt him relentlessly across Arizona. Day after day, mile after mile, the chase is unyielding, merciless. And with each passing day, the hope of a happy ending fades further into the desert heat.


Arizona, after 1886
Massai, a young Apache, escapes a fate of captivity and humiliation by leaping from a moving train carrying his people to Florida—to a life in a prisoner-of-war camp.
Over the following months, he makes his way back to his homeland in Arizona and New Mexico. There, he lives in solitude, feared by all as an outlaw. It is a true and dramatic life story from the closing chapter of the Wild West.


Arizona, around 1887
Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl—better known as Apache Kid—was a young Apache who had spent much of his life among whites and served the U.S. Army as a scout. When a court sentenced him to seven years in Yuma Prison, it was, under those conditions, a death sentence in all but name.
During transport to the prison, he and his fellow inmates escaped. From that moment on, he lived free and wild, beyond all rules.
He was hunted by the law, by his former friends in the Army, and by anyone who fancied themselves a pursuer of justice.
He was an outlaw, a reward on his head—dead or alive, as was the custom. Anyone who crossed his path had the right to shoot him on sight.
Surrounded by countless legends, and with his fate still unknown to this day, Apache Kid became one of the most famous Apaches of the West.


This book is titled Apache Blood: Apache Kid to underline the historical connection. There are striking parallels—in the way people think and in the way events unfold.
The story of Jason and Annie is purely fictional, born entirely of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events is purely coincidental. The two interwoven historical accounts, however, are bitter reality, drawn from an age when the West was still wild and untamed.

A novel for readers aged 15 and up, as well as adults.