{"product_id":"the-western-star-a-longmire-mystery-paperback","title":"The Western Star: A Longmire Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCraig Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe thirteenth Longmire novel from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Land of Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSheriff 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 \u003ci\u003eMurder on the Orient Express\u003c\/i\u003e, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series\u003ci\u003e Longmire\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella \u003ci\u003eSpirit of Steamboat\u003c\/i\u003e was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753847914784,"sku":"9780143109136","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7c80f5bf041a58941563379cccec27ee.webp?v=1780028339","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-western-star-a-longmire-mystery-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}