Navajo crimebusters Leaphorn and Chee are back together in this
thrilling addition to Tony Hillerman's bestselling series
In 1998 three heavily armed "survivalists" came out of the Four Corners
canyons in a stolen truck, murdered a policeman--and eluded an epic
manhunt. The crime and the bungled FBI investigation left behind a web
of mysteries. The most puzzling of all: what crime were the men enroute
to commit when Officer Dale Claxton stopped them--and paid for his
bravery with his life?
Tony Hillerman assigns these real-life puzzles to his fictional Navajo
Tribal police officers--Sergeant Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn
(retired). The time is now, and the memory of the mishandled manhunt of
1998 is still painfully fresh when three men stage a pre-dawn raid on
the Ute Tribe's gambling casino, and then disappear in the maze of
canyons on the Utah-Arizona border after killing a policeman. Together,
Chee and Leaphorn discover an intriguing pattern connecting this crime
with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero/bandit. Tightly plotted and
beautifully written, Hunting Badger proves once again that no one
tells a story like Tony Hillerman.
