Tony Hillerman Hunting Badger 5 CDs - unabridged audiobook

The marvelous Hunting Badger is Tony Hillerman's 14thnovel featuring Navajo tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Herethe two cops (who appeared in separate books early on but whose paths now crossroutinely) are working two angles of the same case to catch the right-wingmilitiamen who pulled off a violent heist at an Indian casino. Hillerman servesup plenty of action and enough plot twists to keep readers off balance, leadingup to a satisfyingly tense climax in which Leaphorn and Chee stalk a killer inhis hideout. But through it all, the cardinal Hillerman virtues are in evidence:economical, pellucid prose; a panoply of Indian-country characters who seem torise right up off the page; vivid evocations of the Southwest's bleak beauty;and rich insights into Navajo life and culture. (Hillerman once told aninterviewer that the highest compliment he'd ever received was many Navajoreaders' 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 contactbetween Leaphorn and Chee, and we continue to see further into the pricklyLeaphorn's human side (though without fuss or sentimentality). Chee finallybegins to get over Janet Pete (it took about six books) and inch toward a newlove interest. And in a moving section involving Chee's spiritual teacher FrankSam Nakai, the shaman provides a key insight into the case.

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