A Serpent's Tooth
A captivating episode in the best-selling, award-winning series - now a hit Netflix show!
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Publisher Description
The ninth book in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire.
Cord Lynear, a Mormon 'lost boy' forced off his compound for supposedly rebellious behaviour, shows up in Absaroka County. Without much guidance, divine or otherwise, Sheriff Walt Longmire, his second-in-command Victoria Moretti and his good friend Henry Standing Bear search for the boy's mother and find themselves in a scavenger hunt that ends at the doorstep of an interstate polygamy group. Run by Roy Lynear - Cord's father - the group is frighteningly well-armed and very good at keeping secrets.
As Walt, Henry and Vic pursue the Lynears, they hear whispers of Big Oil and the CIA and find they might be dealing with more than they bargained for.
'The characters talk straight from the hip and the Wyoming landscape is its own kind of eloquence' New York Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Just in time for the second season of the A&E TV series Longmire comes bestseller Johnson's deeply satisfying ninth Walt Longmire novel (after 2012's As the Crow Flies). On the personal front, the Wyoming sheriff worries about his deepening relationship with Victoria "Vic" Moretti, his intelligent undersheriff, because of their age difference and because he's the boss. A more serious worry for Walt is Cord Lynear, who appears to be about 15 and is looking for his mother. A delusional homeless man appoints himself Cord's bodyguard. Cord turns out to be a "lost boy," kicked out of a secretive polygamous group led by his stepfather, Roy Lynear, which has been putting down roots in nearby states. Although the zealots use teenage guards so inexperienced they don't even know where the safety is on their guns, nothing is amateurish about the thugs who control the compound. Suspense propels the brisk plot, complemented by a sly sense of humor and a breathtaking look at Wyoming. 12-city author tour.
