Sacred Clowns | Characters
The two protagonists of Sacred Clowns are once again Hillerman's Navajo policemen. Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. In this novel, however, they now work together in the new Special Investigations Office on the Navajo Reservation, Leaphorn, the older and more analytical of the two, is now Chee's immediate supervisor. Various conflicts arise between them. Leaphorn attempts to force Chee to be more thorough in his reports and less impulsive in his methods. Chee resents Leaphorn's control, especially when the lieutenant assigns him to find a runaway Navajo boy rather than...
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