Tony Hillerman, Hunting Badger CD
Hunting Badger CD [UNABRIDGED] by Tony Hillerman Read by George Guidall
HarperAudio on Compact Disc. 5 1/2 hours, 5 compact discs. (Audio Book Club
Edition). The marvelous Hunting Badger is Tony Hillerman's 14th novel
featuring Navajo tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Here the
two cops (who appeared in separate books early on but whose paths now cross
routinely) are working two angles of the same case to catch the right-wing
militiamen who pulled off a violent heist at an Indian casino. Hillerman
serves up plenty of action and enough plot twists to keep readers off
balance, leading up to a satisfyingly tense climax in which Leaphorn and
Chee stalk a killer in his hideout. But through it all, the cardinal
Hillerman virtues are in evidence: economical, pellucid prose; a panoply of
Indian-country characters who seem to rise right up off the page; vivid
evocations of the Southwest's bleak beauty; and rich insights into Navajo
life and culture. (Hillerman once told an interviewer that the highest
compliment he'd ever received was many Navajo readers' assumption that he
himself is Navajo--he's not.) While first-time readers will find plenty to
enjoy in Hunting Badger, it holds special pleasures for longtime fans.
There's more and deeper contact between Leaphorn and Chee, and we continue
to see further into the prickly Leaphorn's human side (though without fuss
or sentimentality). Chee finally begins to get over Janet Pete (it took
about six books) and inch toward a new love interest. And in a moving
section involving Chee's spiritual teacher Frank Sam Nakai, the shaman
provides a key insight into the case. In a world teeming with "sense of
place" mysteries--set in Seattle, Alaska, the Arizona desert, or Chicago--it
can be a shock to return to Hillerman, who started it all, and realize just
how superior he is to the rest of the pack. --Nicholas H. Allison Jewel case
in cardboard slipcover. The front of the jewel case is lightly scuffed.
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