The Sandbar Author:Mark Joseph In a remote section of the Chemahuevi Indian Reservation, just days before the annual Fourth of July holiday weekend, Joseph Littlefoot, a tribal police officer on late-night patrol, is attacked and brutally murdered. The crime scene is arranged to simulate an accident, leaving his body for desert predators and the Arizona sun. The execution was... more » perpetrated to cover the use of tribal lands as the temporary base for a clandestine narcotics laboratory adjacent to the Colorado River. Three hundred miles away, Lieutenant Jacob Laramie, a thirty-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, closes an unrelated kidnapping investigation before traveling to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to instruct a cadre of young, inexperienced tribal police officers in the techniques of crime scene investigation. The LAPD lieutenant and his boyhood companion Edward Cairook, a lieutenant with the tribal police and cousin to Joseph Littlefoot, discover the grisly scene by accident during an excursion across the desert. Corruption, drug dealing, and contract murders unfold in the Southwest party town known for the London Bridge. But the murder investigation and the two lieutenants run head-on into an undercover operation conducted by a joint federal task force. Solving the crime is one thing . justice is another.« less