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BLOOD OF THE TRIBE
by David S. Brody
Martin and Lawrence Press, June 2003
384 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0972168710


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Bruce Arrujo, a Mashpee Indian, has returned to Cape Cod after sailing aimlessly for the last couple of years. He had been engaged to Shelby Baskin, a fellow Harvard Law School graduate, but he managed to frame Pierre Prefontaine for murder. Pierre was jailed for 6 months but finally got out and over a period of time, managed to earn enough money to move his family back to Mashpee.

Pierre buys a house in a new subdivision without investigating the builder and finds he has made a bad deal. The house is unfinished, The contract with Rex Griffin is unbreakable, so he and Carla move into the house and try and get on with life.

Griffin finds what appears to be a grave on the border between his land and Prefontaine's. It appears to be the grave of the native chief called King Philip in the history books. If this is true, then he could parlay this find into millions. He lives in the original farmhouse with his retarded sister. He has an autistic brother in a home in Boston.

Several years before, the Mashpee tribe had sued for return of their land, the whole town of Mashpee, but they lost when the courts decided that they were not a true tribe. Rex finds 19th century hand written journal pages of tribal meetings which would prove that they were a tribe and would be able to get some of the benefits owed them by the U S Government.

Griffin is run over. His body is found in a ditch. But not before he had pimped his sister to a Mashpee Indian High School student and gotten her pregnant, which would make the executor of her estate a rich man. Even from the grave, Rex Griffin keeps running his cons.

This is an interesting legal thriller. It could have used some tightening up in places, but all the characters are well defined. Perhaps even more interesting, is that is comes from a new small press, which plans to publish books by authors living in New England or about New England.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, June 2003

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