Craig Johnson
When Wyoming highway patrol officer Rosey Wayman is transferred to the beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, an area the troopers refer to as no-man's-land because of the lack of radio communication, she starts receiving "officer needs assistance" calls. The problem? They're coming from Bobby Womack, a legendary Arapaho patrolman who met a fiery death in the canyon almost a half-century ago. With an investigation that spans this world and the next, Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear take on a case that pits them against a legend: The Highwayman.
I was a little excited when I read this novella's description because I have visited the canyon Johnson writes about and gone through the tunnels on the winding road Longmire drives on. I've been to Thermopolis and Worland and Shoshoni and know the barren loneliness inherent in the landscape. This is a good, compact tale with a true sense of place...you know, just like all the Longmire books. It's not as spooky as the description would lead you to believe and I think that's a good thing. It keeps Longmire realistic and believable, but still exciting.
First Line: There is a canyon in the heart of Wyoming carved by a river called Wind and a narrow, opposing, two-lane highway that follows its every curve like a lover.
Page 56 / Line 5: "Do you think you have to be crazy or Indian to willfully do that sort of thing?"
A Good Line from Somewhere in the Middle: I didn't have to wonder long, however, as I plunged into the Wind River and it seemed as though the 640 muscles in my body contracted to the point of breaking all 206 bones.
Last Line: At least that's our story, the owl and me.
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