Belly Of The Beast

One fall night in Rogers City Michigan, Jimmy Holes In His Hands Blackbird and John Walks With Fire Wabano find themselves intoxicated and enraged in a bar full of patrons over a blood feud that has been simmering for generations.

Early in the morning local police officers find, not for the first time, Jimmy Holes In His Hands passed out in his ancient pickup truck behind the International Hotel Bar.This time however, Jimmy is covered with blood from head to toe. Very soon after his arrest fro drunk and disorderly, John Walks With Fire Wabano's body is found brutally murdered in the abandoned fish tug Beast not two hundred yards from the International Hotel Bar. Police officers and the Presque Isle County Canine Unit, find a trail of blood directly from the Beast to Blackbird;s truck. The trouble is, Jimmy can't remember a thing and is then arrest for first degree murder.

Defense attorney Miller has represented Jimmy for years and is on the case. But can there be a defense? Miller hires a colorful Private Investigator from Bay City Michigan by the name of Wulstan Joseph Tempest III. Through "Wully's" investigative skills they soon learn that a mysterious figure by he name of Rix Secret Thunder "Tomahawk" Chusco was also in the International Hotel Bar that night, and a new amazing twisting defense theory emerges from the darkness.

Chief Henry Dalton Ogema of the Ottawa Nation sends Henry Mensing of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians Tribal Police to observe the investigation and the plot thickens in what at first was believed to be an open and shut case of first degree murder with a terrible weapon.

Full off local characters and moving from Mackinac Island to the Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Petoskey, Rogers City and Alpena Michigan, the trial of James Holes In His Hands Blackbird is one for the ages.