The success of Craig Johnsonโs Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&Eโs hit show Longmire introduced new fans to the Wyoming sheriff. As the Crow Flies marked the seriesโ highest debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in his ninth Western mystery, Longmire stares down his most dangerous foes yet.
Itโs homecoming for the Durant Dogies when Cord Lynear, a Mormon โlost boyโ forced off his compound for rebellious behavior, shows up in Absaroka County. Without much guidance, divine or otherwise, Sheriff Walt Longmire, Victoria Moretti, and Henry Standing Bear search for the boyโs mother and find themselves on a high-plains scavenger hunt that ends at the barbed-wire doorstep of an interstate polygamy group. Run by four-hundred-pound Roy Lynear, Cordโs father, the group is frighteningly well armed and very good at keeping secrets.
Waltโs got Cord locked up for his own good, but the Absaroka County jailhouse is getting crowded since the arrival of the boyโs self-appointed bodyguard, a dangerously spry old man who claims to be blessed by Joseph Smith himself. As Walt, Vic, and Henry butt heads with the Lynears, they hear whispers of Big Oil and the CIA and fear they might be dealing with a lot more than they bargained for.
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