An explosion in the parking lot at
Shiprock High School leaves one man dead. Sgt Bernie Manuelito who was watching
the basketball game and heard the first bomb go off is suddenly very much on
duty, dealing with the panicked crowds, a rookie who is more keen to impress
the FBI than to do his job and the possibility that there could be more bombs
set to go off when the crowd leaves the gymnasium.
Bernie is pretty scuffed up by the
time she gets home to find that Jim Chee, her husband was been ordered to Tuba
City where a mediation is taking place over a possible development at the Grand
Canyon. He has to babysit the mediator, Aza Palmer and things are getting
heated on both sides. Sabotage and buckets of dead fish are the least of Chee's
problems. Palmer doesn't want to be followed around and keeps giving Chee the
slip and the FBI suspects an ecoterrorist plot to inflame tensions between the
Hopi and the Dine tribes during the mediation.
Bernie, still investigating the
Shiprock bombing, brings in retired lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and with his help
begins to dig into a cold case from Leaphorn's past that reveals a simmering
pot of revenge, about to boil over, in Tuba City.
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