O'Shea's Quests

A Midwestern sheriff's deputy, ambitious and on the rise, a transplant from New York now a refugee from the East Coast, takes on the investigation of a crime spun off from illegal trade in Native American artifacts. In the process he has to negotiate a minefield of racial angles in his own life as well as in the case and deal with dilettante Native Americans, people with scant Native American ancestry who use artifact hunting as an excuse to party. The deputy learns something about ethnic affiliation as he works the case. He solves it, but there are personal losses.