The 1st Ely Stone novel Ely Stone returns to the wilds of upper Michigan from the military A jaded and wounded warrior he accepts a job as his tribes special agent and sets off to troubleshoot the ominous Muskcrat Island He finds love in the form of a beautiful girl but things only go badly from there Chinese agents an old Russian spy and secretive US Air Force operatives are all after something on the island and the former Coast Guardsman is right in the way Ely escapes death but at the end of his tribal mission he finally hears the quotThe Murmuringsquot and must not only face the fact that he is more deeply Indian than he ever realized but alsothat theres something more terrifying about that island than anything hes ever experienced in war And that something came to rest smackdab in the middle of Indian country