Fictional Indian helps put novel on top ten sellers list

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Joe Pena, a fictional character in a paperback novel, is getting rave reviews from literary critics.

The novel, called Stallion Gate, was written by Martin Cruz Smith and is a historical account of the development of the atom bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the late 1940s.

Many books have been written on the subject, but Stallion Gate looks at the events that led to the invention of the atom bomb through the eyes of an Indian sergeant, Joe Pena. Book critics have praised the character's unpredictability.

The author, Martin Cruz Smith, also wrote 'And The Indians Won', a novel that speculated on the Indian nations of North America as a world superpower with the world's largest nuclear arsenal.

Stallion Gate is now the number three bestseller across the nation.