Review #124
A Sgt. Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn Mystery
A "sinister pig" is boss of the sty: the pig who guards the trough and attacks any other animal trying to eat from it.
When the body of an undercover agent, who's been looking for clues to the whereabouts of billions of dollars missing from the Tribal Trust Funds, turns up on reservation property near Four Corners, Navajo cop Sgt. Jim Chee and Cowboy Dashee, a Hopi with the Federal Bureau of Land Management, join up to investigate. Retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn is checking into the same murder from another direction.
Officer Bernadette "Bernie" Manueslito, Chee's romantic interest, has left the Navajo Tribal Police Force and now works in the New Mexico boot heel for the U.S. Border Patrol. A routine patrol puts Bernie on the trail of an operation involving some old oil pipelines that connects to Four Corners and, possibly, the murder there.
The three lines converge on a conspiracy of drugs, greed and power. Those who most profit will stop at nothing to keep it a secret! The “sinister pig” must either fight or run.
With his usual up-front approach to issues concerning Native Americans, Hillerman delivers a masterful tale that both entertains and… once again… educates.
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