Hunting Badger
Kind of a Navajo fiction, delivered by Tony Hillerman in “Hunting Badger”
Lots of Navajo myths and tradition encompasses this narrative of a casino being looted and the three men disappearing altogether. It is based on a true story of a casino being robbed in 1998 and the story goes in almost similar fashion.
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Hillerman has fashioned a beautiful fiction around it. Seargent Jim Chee of Navajo Tribal Police gets involved in it even though his leave is not over. Officer Bernadette Manuelito gets him to be a party to solving the crime.
Joe Leaphorn has retired but his reputation as Legendary Leaphorn never leaves him, so he is roped him to do some dirty work. Legendary Leaphorn does the thinking and Chee the legwork or part of it.
Roy Gershwin brings Leaphorn into the picture and Timms tries to make the most of the crime by attempting an insurance fraud while Everett Jorie who is ostensibly one of the looters is double crossed.
Intrigue and deception coupled with Navajo myth makes this an interesting reading, unlike other fiction that i have ever read. This is different. There is an element of suspense which Hillerman reveals slowly. Goodreads 4/5
