Hunting Badger

Three armed men raid the Ute tribe’s gambling casino, and then disappear in the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border.
The FBI takes over the investigation, and agents swarm in with helicopters and high-tech equipment.
Making an explosive situation even hotter, these experts devise a theory of the crime that makes a wounded deputy sheriff a suspect — a development that brings in Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn to help.
Chee finds a fatal flaw in the federal theory and Leaphorn sees an intriguing pattern connecting this crime with the exploits of a legendary Ute hero bandit.
Balancing politics, outsiders, and missing armed fugitives, Leaphorn and Chee soon find themselves caught in the most perplexing — and deadly — crime hunt of their lives….