The Red Power Murders by Thomas King

Author:Thomas King
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2017-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Things were getting out of hand. Mitchell Street, Noah Ridge, Dakota Miles, Grover Many Horses, Lucy Kettle, and now Reuben Justice. What had started off as a short story was fast becoming a Russian novel. If things got any more out of hand, Thumps was going to have to make up a chart himself. Or a scorecard.

So far as Thumps could tell, all the sheriff had was a bunch of pieces. Mitchell Street comes to Chinook three days ahead of Noah. Maybe he goes to Glory. Maybe he doesn’t. Maybe he sees Grover Many Horses. Maybe he doesn’t. After Noah and Dakota arrive in town, Street does make a phone call to the Tucker. Whom does he talk to and about what?

And then someone kills him.

Noah Ridge writes a book that goes nowhere, so he invents a book tour in the hopes of drumming up business. And one of the stops just happens to be Lucy Kettle’s hometown. He’s threatened, beaten up, and then, rather dramatically, disappears.

Wonderful.

THUMPS SAT IN HIS CAR and started at the beginning. The Red Power Movement comes to Salt Lake City and opens shop. With Noah Ridge leading the way, RPM is successful in bringing national attention to the problems facing Native people. RPM leads demonstrations, opens survival schools, funds after-school programs. Most of all, it annoys the FBI and local law enforcement, which would like nothing better than to close the organization down and toss Noah’s sorry ass in jail.

Then Clinton Buckhorn comes along and everything changes. Buckhorn and Wilson Scout and Wallace Begay kidnap Matthew Colburne and force him to open the company safe. Colburne plays hero and shoots Begay, and Buckhorn shoots Colburne. Buckhorn et al. disappear with a bag of cash and head for Salt Lake, where Buckhorn imposes on his cousin.

Thumps wondered if Buckhorn had taken more than just cash from Morgan Energy. The copy of the $50,000 bond had to have come from somewhere. If Hockney knew, he wasn’t telling. If he didn’t know, he must have had his suspicions. It wasn’t something that every former FBI agent would carry around.

In the meantime, the FBI runs all over the country trying to find the three men until they get a tip from a mysterious informant named Massasoit. The bureau raids Justice’s house, but Buckhorn is waiting for them, and the ensuing battle leaves five people dead.

That same night Lucy Kettle disappears. Reuben Justice goes to jail for life, and Mitchell Street is summarily shipped off to Nebraska.

Just trying to keep everything straight made Thumps’s head hurt. In the activist/terrorist game, Ridge was a lightweight contender. So why, after all these years, send an agent to shadow him? Noah’s book might have annoyed the boys in Washington, but the FBI must certainly have better things to do than chase around the countryside after one medium-naughty Indian. Then again, the bureau was famous for withholding information. Maybe there was more to this than Thumps could see.

Not that he wanted to look.

Thumps picked up Noah’s book and flipped through the pages, in case a clue wanted to fall into his lap.

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