SOURCE: Langton, Jane. “‘Hunting’ for Balance, Power: Hillerman's Latest Ranks among the Best.” Boston Herald (28 November 1999): 59.

In the following review, Langton ranks Hunting Badger among Hillerman's best novels, contending the author utilizes a vivid sense of landscape and strong development of his two central characters.

“You tell them the Power that made us, made all this above us and around us and we are part of the Power and if we do as we are taught we can bring ourselves back into hozho. Back into harmony. Then they will again know beauty all around them.”

These are the dying words of Hosteen Frank Sam Nakai to his nephew, Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navaho Tribal Police. Nakai is not a dreamy New Age prophet—he speaks the inherited lore of his people. His wisdom is part of what makes Hunting Badger one of Tony Hillerman's tip-top best.

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