The Johnsons' novel Finders Keepers (1981) also has a near-future setting and a plot premise about energy supplies. In it, two teen-agers try to survive the blowup of a nuclear power plant. Most of the authors' books use a Western locale as integral to the rest of the story, as in the present book. A notable recent example is Cobblehill (1990), a mystery in a Navajo setting.