Review: Not a mystery
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
Not a police procedural for sure. Apparently Zeb Hanks has never attended law enforcement training, nor has his deputy. This book is one of those two parallel plots deals. Bad guys in one track, good guys on another track until they all meet. The reader knows what the bad guys are up to. The reader is following the sheriff as he bumbles, misses clues, lacks insight and intuition. The reader is treated to the female deputy dating the President of a Native corporation. Said Native guy has no clue what the reservation police are doing about the interaction with the bad guys. In this day and age, Natives are supposed to be too afraid to talk to white police and are outwardly hostile to whites. Give me a break. This is not realistic in the present day.The President of the Native Corporation/reservation is a jerk, hostile and comically bigoted. I have known Native Americans my entire life. I am familiar with Native politics. I am married to a Fed LE officer, and worked with LE for years. This author didn't take nearly enough notes to try to write this book with any accuracy. The Sheriff's office is a joke. Not even the most lax, poorly trained and corrupt police department in an Alaska town of 2000 where I lived for nearly 20 years was this unprofessional and untrained.I stuck it out to see if the author would redeem themselves by the end of the book. He didn't.Poor research, or no research. No idea of Native Americans. I can only assume this was edited by a writer's group who were out of their depth.Save your money.