The second volume of Scalped comes at you the emotion from
the get go. Tragedy comes for everybody
in this volume. Gina Bad Horse is dead
but no one knows who killed her. Dashiell Bad Horse has a crisis of consciousness
while he is trying to deal with the death of his own mother & the death of
a teenage boy’s mother. The teenage boy's name is Shelton, he has four brothers & sisters that he looks out for. Shelton reminds Dashiell of his own troubled past as he tries to relate to the kid & reassure him that they will catch the guy who killed his mom. In his grief Dashiell turns to Carol &
picks up some more of her bad habits. We
do get to see some of her backstory & why she hates her dad so much. Shelton dies while trying to get revenge for his mothers death. This leads to a confrontation between Dashiell & Diesel except now they both know that they are both
undercover agents for the F.B.I.
Lincoln Red Crow is probably the one character who has been affected the most by Gina’s murder. He
is starting to downward spiral in some of his decisions he is making. Thanks to Red Crow's business deals with an Asian crime family the Hmongs, he is starting to lose control of his hold on the reservation. The Hmongs have sent Mr. Brass a scary little man who works a lot like the Spanish Inquisition pain first & asking questions second. By the end of this book Red Crow steps up & takes a stand against the cruelty that Mr. Brass is raining down on his people but some o the damage has already been done.
Granny Poor Bear is Dino's grandmother but she is respected by all of the characters that have interacted with her so far. She prepares a soul pouch for Gina's soul & gives it to Lincoln Red Crow because of his history with her. The book shows a lot of their history throughout this part of the story, Gina really plays a bigger part in flashbacks than in the present. This responsibility that Granny has bestowed on Red Crow is a real driving force in this book & provides his character with a lot of conviction. In the end however some old habits are just to hard to give up.
Dino Poor Bear is the other great tragedy of this volume. Dino fixes up his car with the money he was given but he gets pulled over for driving recklessly. This one event leads to several bad decisions & bad situations that seem lucrative at the time. All the while Dino keeps telling himself that he is trying to provide a better life for his daughter but in reality he is shackling her to life on this reservation. Granny sees what is happening & she tries some tough love on him to make him see reason but in the end Dino will have to live with what he has lost as he is lying in a hospital bed at the end of this book.
Franklin Falls Down makes his return in this book after recovering from being set up to be killed during a routine drug bust by Red Crow. Falls Down is one tough character he is the one good cop on a police force of crooked cops his father was cop before him. Red Crow comes to officer Falls Down with Gina Bad Horse's Murder Case because Red Crow wants it solved at all cost & he knows that Falls Down is the only cop he can trust to solve it. F.B.I. Agent Nitz is back in all his glory he is glad that Gina is dead & like everybody else he believes that Red Crow had her killed. The F.B.I. is portrayed in a very negative light in this series & I have a feeling that there is more to Agent Nitz than simple retribution for the deaths of two F.B.I. agents in the 1970s. Catcher also returns in this book for one brief scene in which is is screaming that he can't wash off the blood it leads the readers to believe that he killed Gina. To which I ask why did he do it?
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