The Western Star
A Longmire Mystery
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a beer when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. The photograph--and an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men...
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Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a beer when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. The photograph--and an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men Walt has encountered--hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present, placing him squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.
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The thirteenth Longmire novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of WolvesSheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff's Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them.
The photograph along with an upcoming parole hearing for one of the most dangerous men Walt has encountered in a lifetime of law enforcement hurtles the sheriff into a head-on collision of past and present, placing him and everyone he cares about squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.
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1I pressed in on the knurled end of my Colt 1911A1 with my thumb at the same time rotating the barrel bushing a quarter turn clockwise to free the plug and recoil assembly, my hands working from rote. Business.
Joe Iron Cloud, the young Arapaho sheriff, held up my silhouette target, the fluorescent light beaming through the holes tightly grouped at the center with only one high and slightly off to the right. I guess business was good.
I removed the mechanism, rotating the plug in a counterclockwise direction to free it from the spring. I suppose.
Some of the other sheriffs came over to join Joe, who chewed his gum like a masticating machine. When did you start carrying that thing?
Concentrating on the work in an attempt to try to get out of the mood into which I was descending, I rotated the barrel bushing counterclockwise, disengaging it from the slide. Vietnam.
Steve Wolf, the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy s range manager, approached and handed me a clipboard. Walt, I need you to sign off on these.
The younger sheriffs drifted away as I signed the forms, and the silver-haired man studied me. Mind if I ask why you do this? Steve watched me continue to disassemble my weapon. Come all the way down here every four years and requalify?
I handed the paperwork back, shrugged, and leaned against the green felt bench. A lot of these larger departments have facilities where they can do this stuff, but we re kind of small. The only range we ve got is outdoors, and come November, my undersheriff really doesn t care for that. The range manager smiled and glanced at Victoria Moretti, who was in the process of cleaning her own weapon. I d imagine. He was silent for a moment. That, and the academy happens to be on the way to Cheyenne, where you go for a four-year parole hearing.
I glanced at him and then went back to working on my weapon. Yep.
He waited a moment. Lot of controversy surrounding that
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case.
Yep.
Lots of rumors.
Yep.
Smiling, he pushed off the bench and started for his office, but then stopped to call back, Hey, I heard a rumor that your daughter is working for Joe Meyer and that collection of outlaws down there in the attorney general s office.
Having reassembled the Colt, I finally turned to look at him. Yep.
She living in Cheyenne?
Yep.
Well, maybe we ll see you more often?
Nope.
He shook his head and then turned away. Really good talking with you, Walt.
As I took my time to carefully oil the exterior of my sidearm, I found myself staring at the forest-green felt, stained with the oil from thousands of weapons that had been taken apart and put back together on its surface. I wondered how many men had been taken apart and put back together in the process.
You keep playing with that thing and you re going to wear it out. Iron Cloud barked a laugh. At least, that s what my mother used to tell me. I turned and looked at him, his broad grin splitting his suntanned face like a shearing glacier. How bout having a beer with us?
I reloaded the one round in the pipe, filled the magazine, slipped it between the ancient, yellowed stag grips, and placed the Colt into the pancake holster at the small of my back. Sorry, Joe, I have to get to Cheyenne. Besides, Lucian is waiting on us back at the hotel.
How many times have we heard this fucking story?
I ve hea
Yep.
Lots of rumors.
Yep.
Smiling, he pushed off the bench and started for his office, but then stopped to call back, Hey, I heard a rumor that your daughter is working for Joe Meyer and that collection of outlaws down there in the attorney general s office.
Having reassembled the Colt, I finally turned to look at him. Yep.
She living in Cheyenne?
Yep.
Well, maybe we ll see you more often?
Nope.
He shook his head and then turned away. Really good talking with you, Walt.
As I took my time to carefully oil the exterior of my sidearm, I found myself staring at the forest-green felt, stained with the oil from thousands of weapons that had been taken apart and put back together on its surface. I wondered how many men had been taken apart and put back together in the process.
You keep playing with that thing and you re going to wear it out. Iron Cloud barked a laugh. At least, that s what my mother used to tell me. I turned and looked at him, his broad grin splitting his suntanned face like a shearing glacier. How bout having a beer with us?
I reloaded the one round in the pipe, filled the magazine, slipped it between the ancient, yellowed stag grips, and placed the Colt into the pancake holster at the small of my back. Sorry, Joe, I have to get to Cheyenne. Besides, Lucian is waiting on us back at the hotel.
How many times have we heard this fucking story?
I ve hea
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Autoren-Porträt von Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Craig Johnson
- 2018, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0143109138
- ISBN-13: 9780143109136
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for The Western Star:Walt Longmire still bears the impenetrable stoicism of the American West balanced with an irrepressible humanity . . . he is balanced, like the West itself, by poetry, sensitivity and culture a character of tremendous strength and sometimes surprising violence.
The Washington Post
All aboard! The Longmire train is in the station, and you don't want to miss this one.
Shelf Awareness
Bestseller Johnson pays homage to Agatha Christie in his cleverly plotted [The Western Star] . . . And [he] winds up the whodunit with a solution that Christie could never have imagined.
Publishers Weekly
Entertaining and suspenseful.
The Washington Times
[The Western Star is] an excellent addition to [Craig Johnson s] Longmire series. Whether a fan of the book or Netflix series, the reader will enjoy the fast-paced action and crisp dialogue.
Deseret News
Extraordinary . . . delightful . . . Readers are reminded that as compassionate and fair-minded Walt has become, there remains at his core a ruthless protective instinct for those he loves.
Kings River Life Magazine
More praise for Craig Johnson and the Walt Longmire Mystery Series:
Like the greatest crime novelists, Johnson is a student of human nature. Walt Longmire is strong but fallible, a man whose devil-may-care stoicism masks a heightened sensitivity to the horrors he s witnessed.
Los Angeles Times
Johnson s trademarks [are] great characters, witty banter, serious sleuthing, and a love of Wyoming bigger than a stack of derelict cars.
The Boston Globe
Stepping into Walt s world is like slipping on a favorite pair of slippers, and it s where those slippers lead that provides a thrill. Johnson pens a series that should become a must read, so curl up, get comfortable, and enjoy the ride.
The Denver Post
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