The success of Craig Johnsonβs Walt Longmire series that began with The Cold Dish continues to grow after A&Eβs hit show Longmire introduced new fans to the Wyoming sheriff. As the Crow Flies marked the seriesβ highest debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in his ninth Western mystery, Longmire stares down his most dangerous foes yet.
Itβs homecoming for the Durant Dogies when Cord Lynear, a Mormon βlost boyβ 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 boyβs 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, Cordβs father, the group is frighteningly well armed and very good at keeping secrets.
Waltβs got Cord locked up for his own good, but the Absaroka County jailhouse is getting crowded since the arrival of the boyβs 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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