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Spur Award-winner Craig Johnson has garnered critical acclaim for his Walt Longmire mysteries. In this riveting seventh entry, Wyoming's Absaroka County sheriff, Walt Longmire, is pushed beyond his limits.
When three hardened convicts escape FBI custody in a mountain blizzard, an armed psychopath leads them up Big Horn Mountain. As Longmire struggles to track their treacherous ascent, he'll need all the help he can get from the tribal spirits of the towering summit.
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What begins as a harrowing chase to recapture convicts at large becomes an exercise in survival, the voices of Indian spirits swirling within the snow flurries as Sheriff Walt Longmire climbs ever higher up Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains where child-killer and sociopath Raynaud Shade, a Crow-adopted Canadian Indian, has engineered an escape into the wilderness with four fellow convicts, an entourage of FBI agents and private security guards routed, the gathering teams of law enforcement down mountain impeded by a nightmarish blizzard. Longmire and his prey isolated in the farthest reaches of the wilderness, Walt pursues the violent band armed only with a few weapons, supplies and a tattered copy of Dante's Inferno, unwilling to wait for the arrival of reinforcements. While the situation is particularly hazardous and the sheriff's adversaries, especially Shade, formidable and deadly, it is not uncharacteristic for Longmire to opt for courage over caution.
Longmire's usual accomplices, undersheriff Victoria Moretti, Basque deputy Saizarbitoria (Sancho) and long-time friend Henry Standing Bear are relegated to the sidelines (by weather conditions and by Johnson's plot), available only through sat phone conversations, as the solitary lawman lumbers onward. The physical exertions of the chase push him beyond reasonable limitations- to the point of imminent death- as the two adversaries meet on an icy mountain peak for a final reckoning. Drawing upon his considerable physical reserves, an appreciation for Indian spirits and the tenacity (stubbornness) to survive the most extreme circumstances, Longmire's journey veers into the realm of the existential, a man reduced to the simplicity of survival in a place where "all horrors are horrors of the mind".
A Review of the Entire Series:
I became interested in knowing more about the Walt Longmire Mysteries after learning that it was going to be made into a TNT series starring Katee Sackhoff, who was in one of my all-time favorite series, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. So I picked up THE COLD DISH and then DEATH WITHOUT COMPANY and then KINDNESS GOES UNPUNISHED and so on through ANOTHER MAN'S MOCASSINS, A DARK HORSE, JUNKYARD DOGS, and on to Craig Johnson's latest offering to the series, HELL IS EMPTY.
I can't express how impressed I am with this series of novels. There are a couple of things to point out.
First, none of these books are written by a formula. About the only thing each novel has in common with the others is that Walt Longmire, the sheriff of Absaroka County, gets battered and beaten in each one. The one ongoing joke, for lack of a better word, in each book is how much physical punishment Walt undergoes. But the novels themselves differ starkly from one to another. Most series reenact the same novel again and again, with only minor alterations from one book to the next. But Craig Johnson clearly refuses to take the easy path, but insists on working hard to create something new each time.
Second, these books are driven by character and are not whodunits. There are mysteries to be solved, but these are not the heart of each book. Most of the novels focus on a series of character portraits of an ensemble cast, but his most recent novel, HELL IS EMPTY focuses on just a couple of characters. But for the most part the books focus on the ensemble.