The Western Star, Craig Johnson
The Western Star, Craig Johnson
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The Western Star

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Author: Craig Johnson

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 7 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/05/2017

Synopsis

Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a beer when a younger sheriff shows him a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It transports him back to a time when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy
Longmire accompanied his boss, Lucian Connolly, to the annual Wyoming sheriff’s junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star. 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.

Now the photograph—along with 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 those he loves most squarely on the tracks of runaway revenge.

About Craig Johnson

Craig Johnson is currently the senior director of ministries at Lakewood Church with Joel Osteen, overseeing all pastoral ministries and staff, and is the founder of Champions Foundation and the Champions Club developmental centers for special needs, with over 75 centers across the world. Craig is the coauthor of Champions Curriculum, a full-scope Christian curriculum for those with special needs. He is the author of Lead Vertically: Inspire People to Volunteer and Build Great Teams That Last and Champion: How One Boy’s Miraculous Journey Through Autism Is Changing the World. Craig and his wife of 29 years, Samantha, have three children: Cory, Courtney, and Connor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Truman32 on September 20, 2017

There are pedigreed dogs like the ostentatious Lowchen, the uppity Samoyed, or the haughty Tibetan Mastiff. You know, dogs that demand belly scratches at all hours of the night eat only organic chicken browned in a low-sodium broth, and when you toss them a tennis ball to fetch, they look at you lik......more

Goodreads review by Karl on April 01, 2020

This, the 13th in the series, is subtly better than the previous three or four. Johnson uses the historic/current dual-story structure to good effect: here, Longmire's first murder investigation in 1972 resurfaces in present day. I think he wrote this story as a device to use the 'Western Star', a s......more

Goodreads review by Spartacus on September 28, 2017

Disappointing. I enjoyed getting to know young Walt and young(er) Lucian a bit. That was fun. Unfortunately, we get almost no time with Henry and Vic, and wherever they're present in this book they could easily be replaced by cardboard cutouts without any loss of characterization. It would have been......more

Goodreads review by Karen on December 23, 2017

There are actually two stories ( one from the past that eventually coincides with the present), but the reader is jostled a little by the back and forth momentum, IMO. And at the end, we are left with a huge problem that was somewhat neglected and we will have to wait to read the next book to contin......more

Goodreads review by John (I want my notifications back) on November 06, 2023

This is two stories that overlap frequently. Johnson did a wonderful job of weaving these two periods of time together, frustrating the reader with the desire to see what will happen next. The ending is not what I desired and has left me hanging. Never the less, I will push on to the resolution of t......more

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