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Dark Canals is the 16th detective novel in a series by Tony Hillerman . Under the title The Sinister Pig he published in 2003 in English , in German 2004 Rowohlt Verlag .

background

Dark Canals is a Tony Hillerman novel from his series about investigators Joe Leaphorn , Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito . The series initially presented a number of ethno-crime novels, the context of which is the Navajo Tribal Police ( police of the Navajo Nation Reservation ), the social atmosphere in the reservation and its surroundings, the Indian culture and its tensions against the “white” majority civilization was. With Dark Canals , Tony Hillerman left this concept almost completely for the first time, transferring Bernadette Manuelito to the border police at the US / Mexican border, where most of the plot takes place. Indian culture and its tensions against the “white” majority civilization, a constant theme in all previous episodes of the series, hardly play a role.

people

Police and investigators

  • Bernadette Manuelito ("Bernie") is a member of the Navajo (also: Dinee, "people"). Her secret "war name" is girl, who laughs . She is in love with Jim Chee. But both have considerable difficulty in confessing this to the other. To avoid the situation, she was transferred to the border police at the Mexican border and moved to Rodeo .
  • Officer ( Officer ) Jim Chee (warrior name: "The one who thinks far ahead" or "Deep Thinker"), is also a member of the Navajo. Chee is deeply rooted in Navajo culture. He works as a sergeant at Shiprock . He has also been in love with Bernadette Manuelito for several episodes of the series , but doesn't dare to tell her.
  • Joe Leaphorn was Lieutenant ( Lt. ) of the Navajo Tribal Police and retired for some time. He is also a Navajo and used to be the boss of Chee. After the death of his wife a few years earlier and his retirement, he is lonely and devoted to investigations out of boredom. He lives in Windows Rock and is friends with the ethnologist Louisa Bourebonette .
  • Ed Henry of Customs is the District Supervisor and the manager of Bernadette Manuelito .
  • Eleanda Garza is a colleague of Bernadette Manuelito and at the same time their landlady in Rodeo.

The others

  • Louisa Bourebonette is a Professor of Social Anthropology at Northern Arizona University . She collects Native American traditions and lives with Joe Leaphorn while doing research.
  • Gordon Stein (pseudonym: Carl Mankin) is said to be undercover investigating billions that have disappeared from oil deals, which should actually have benefited the indigenous population , on behalf of a high-ranking politician in Washington, DC , and is murdered in the process.
  • Rawley Winsor is a lobbyist in Washington, DC He owns large grounds on the Mexican border where he keeps African game and hunts for business partners. In order not to alienate his influential wife, Margo Lodge Winsor , he orders the murder of his pregnant lover Chrissy .
  • Budge , ex- CIA employee, is employed as a chauffeur and pilot by Rawley Winsor , but is also given espionage and murder assignments by him.

action

The border police at the Mexican border have two main tasks: to combat illegal immigration to the USA and cross-border drug smuggling. Bernadette Manuelito has to do with both and gets in the way of dangerous criminals, which puts them in great danger. Jim Chee can save her from it and the two finally take the courage to confess their love to each other.

expenditure

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HarperCollins , New York 2003. ISBN 0-06-019443-X
  2. ↑ ISBN 3-499-23688-5 . This article is based on the German-language edition.