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* HotScientist: Nora is described as quite attractive and she surprises many men when they first meet her. They expect a mousy, nerd type and find her to be quite stunning.
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* VigilanteExecution: Beyoozadin recounts how his family hunted down the skinwalker who killed his grandfather and cursed him. They shot the man in his sleep so they didn't give him any chance to cast further spells or try to escape. He mentions that it "took a great many bullets."

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* VigilanteExecution: Beyoozadin Beiyoodzin recounts how his family hunted down the skinwalker who killed his grandfather and cursed him. They shot the man in his sleep so they didn't give him any chance to cast further spells or try to escape. He mentions that it "took a great many bullets."
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The fate of Thurber actually is explained in the book. When Nora's brother, Skip goes to visit Ernest Goddard at his mansion, he tells Goddard that he found Thurber's body in the woods behind Nora's house and that he suspects that the skinwalkers who attached Nora at the family ranch house were the ones who abducted and killed Thurber.


* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never do find out the fate of poor Thurber.
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* DwindlingParty: The expedition starts out with a single digit crew and is whittled down one at a time by extenuating circumstances.
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''Thunderhead'' is a novel by [[AgentPendergast Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child]], first published in 1999.

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''Thunderhead'' is a novel by [[AgentPendergast [[Literature/AgentPendergast Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child]], first published in 1999.
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Misuse of Chekhovs Lecture, now renamed Chekhovs Classroom


* ChekhovsLecture: [[spoiler: Nora explains to Smithback how to hear a flash flood coming in the canyons]].

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* ChekhovsLecture: ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Nora explains to Smithback how to hear a flash flood coming in the canyons]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never do find out the fate of poor Thurber.
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* ActionGirl: Sloane pilots, rock climbs, rides horses, and has decent skill with a firearm. And these are just the things she actually does in the story. It's mentioned or implied that she does a ''ton'' more such activities at the insistence of her high standard father. Nora doesn't do too bad herself.


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* WellDoneSonGuy: A female version in Sloane. It haunts her that she never seems to live up to her father's expectations of her.
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* VigilanteExecution: Beyoozadin recounts how his family hunted down the skinwalker who killed his grandfather and cursed him. They shot the man in his sleep so they didn't give him any chance to cast further spells or try to escape. He mentions that it "took a great many bullets."
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* PerfectPoison: Corpse Powder [[spoiler: loaded with the Valley Fever fungus in a concentrated amount that can kill within hours of infection.]]

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