Blue Face

When Nash Taber found the alien living among the Yaqui Indians he was certain that this was the sensational discovery that would end his search for the badly-needed bolster to his sagging academic reputation. Crippled in mind and body - from a wrong marriage and a sever motor accident - the anthropologist had made that this last do-or-die trip to Mexico, never thinking that this discovery would mean not only an end to pain and hunger, but also immortality and power beyond his wildest imaginings. But before ha can announce his discovery, he finds that his situation is very much that of the legendary man who caught a mountain lion alone and with his bare hands.The only time he really felt the need of help was when he tried to turn it loose. Originally published as Chapayeca in 1971 (Doubleday)