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...numerous best-selling mystery novels about two Navajo policemen, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, portrayed the American Indians of the Southwest with accuracy, color and affection. Hillerman, who died Oct. 26 at 83, was the first popular author to consistently write about the Navajo as fully rounded characters. Over 18 novels, starting with 1970's The Blessing Way, he portrayed the Navajo with good traits and bad, as heroic and villainous, just as novelists had written about people of other races and cultures. He understood that Navajo are not the primitives depicted in old western movies, and he wanted...
...Sinclaire, a service-enhancement senior manager. Our Presidio guide is Eddie Freyer, a longtime FBI agent and director of SWAT-team programs. We stride along enjoying the cool, moonlit night. Rob and I discuss our mutual fondness for Tony Hillerman's novels, even imagining we are helping Joe Leaphorn track a killer out there in the darkness. This time I focus and, encouraged by the goodwill of the other three, dare to suggest a shortcut, which saves us time. We quickly find all the checkpoints and then curl up together in our trash bags to rest. Dan, the father...
Hillerman's latest novel in his Navaho mystery series, The Fallen Man, features both of his Navaho police detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The Fallen Man is set on and about the 1,700 foot high Shiprock, a spiritual site for the Navaho in northern New Mexico...
...official Washington; its characters include a quirky contract killer seemingly borrowed from Elmore Leonard; and the underlying politics focuses as much on Pinochet's Chile as on the grievances of tribes whose ancestral graves are plundered for museum displays. But the deftly manipulated plot reunites Hillerman's detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, lovelorn men who bury grief in stubborn pursuit of moral order. Their tracking skills and non-Anglo reasoning still prove vital to averting further crime. In place of breathtaking evocations of light and landscape, Hillerman touchingly portrays the outdoorsmen's dislocation amid subways, crowds and unneighborly indifference...
Some people read Tony Hillerman for the murders. He is, after all, president of the Mystery Writers of America. Others read him for his human interest: in A Thief of Time, his detective, Joe Leaphorn, is coping with his wife's death and his impending retirement. But Hillerman's most striking virtue is his evocation of the Southwest: the barren, craggy land and the complex social interactions between whites and Native Americans and among mutually mistrustful Navajo, Hopi and Apache. Here the plot centers on traditionalists who want to preserve ancient burial places, anthropologists and archaeologists who seek to study...
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