Blind Descent, the sixth in the Anna Pigeon series, is set in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Lechuguilla, the cave the action takes place in has been largely fictionalized both for plot and because, to preserve it, the NPS has closed the cave to visitors. Blind Descent was nominated for an Anthony Award.
Me and Dale Pate, Carlsbad's cave guy, at Ogle Cave.
You never know just what you'll find under a rock!
After a descent of eighty feet or so and a slither down a black crevasse, is a manhole cover--the entrance to Lechuguilla. Not unlike entering the world of the Morlocks in H.G. Wells "Time Machine."
Descending from the world of the living ...