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Spirit of Steamboat: A Walt Longmire Story

by Craig Johnson
Viking. Oct. 2013. 146p. ISBN 9780670015788. $20. M
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This is Johnson's tenth book (after A Serpent's Tooth) to feature Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, who is also the basis for the TV show Longmire. Not so much a mystery as the other series titles, this holiday novella is a suspenseful adventure story that flashes back to the Christmas Eve shortly after Longmire is elected sheriff. A terrible snowstorm is raging, and Longmire has to find a way to get a young car accident victim to the Denver Children's Hospital. Roads are closed, and the Medevac helicopter can't fly in this weather either. An old World War II bomber plane called Steamboat and Lucian Connally, the former sheriff, are the girl's only hope for survival.
VERDICT Series fans along with adventure and Western readers will raptly devour the details of the treacherous flight and revel in the history of the bomber and the bucking horse that inspired its name.
Reviewed by Melissa DeWild , Oct 15, 2013
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