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Zusatztext "With strong human emotions of love! greed! and revenge . . . multifaceted and rich with depth and history." - The Denver Post "Craig Johnson is flat out one of the best storytellers around." -Margaret Coel! author of The Girl with the Braided Hair "Johnson's pacing is tight and his dialogue snaps." - Entertainment Weekly Informationen zum Autor Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit drama series Longmire . He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for fiction, the Nouvel Observateur Prix du Roman Noir, and the Prix SNCF du Polar. His novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-six. Klappentext Walt brings Western-style justice to Philadelphia in this action-packed thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Land of Wolves"It's the scenery-and the big guy standing in front of the scenery-that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries." -The New York Times Book ReviewWalt Longmire has been Sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, for almost a quarter of a century, but when he joins his good friend Henry Standing Bear on a trip to the City of Brotherly Love to see his daughter, Cady, he's in for a shock. Walt hasn't even put his boots up when Cady is viciously attacked and left near death on the steps of the Franklin Institute. He soon discovers that she has unwittingly become involved in a deadly political cover-up. Backed by Henry, Dog, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and the entire Moretti posse of Philadelphia police officers, Walt unpacks his saddlebag of tricks to mete out some Western-style justice. KINDNESS GOES UNPUNISHED 1 I didn’t wear my gun. They had said that it was going to be easy and, like the fool I am, I believed them. They said that if things got rough to make sure I showed the pictures, of which there were only twenty-three; I had already shown all of them twice. “‘Long, long ago, there lived a king and queen…’” I looked around the room for a little backup, but there wasn’t anyone there. They had said that I didn’t have to worry, that they wouldn’t leave me alone, but they had. “‘…who didn’t have any children. One day, the queen was visited by a wise fairy, who told her, “You will have a lovely baby girl.” The king was so overjoyed when he heard the news that he immediately made plans for a great feast. He invited not only his relatives, but also the twelve fairies who lived in the kingdom.’” “Where’s your gun?” My thought exactly. “I didn’t think I was going to need it.” They all nodded, but I wasn’t particularly sure they agreed. “How long have you been a sheriff?” “Twenty-three years.” It just seemed like a million. “Do you know Buffalo Bill?” Maybe it was a million. “No, he was a little before my time.” “My daddy says you’re a butt hole.” I looked down at the battered book in my hands. “Okay, maybe we should concentrate on today’s story…” “He says you used to drive around drunk all the time…” The instigator in the front row looked like a little angel but had a mouth like a stevedore. He was getting ready to say something else, so I cut him off by holding up Grimm’s Fairy Tales open to the page where the young princess had been enchanted and put to sleep for a hundred years. “Why do you think the fairy visited the queen?” A dark-haired girl with enormous eyes who sat in the third row slowly raised her hand. “You?” She cocked her head in disgust. “I told you, my name is Anne.” I nodded mine in contrition. “Right. Anne, why do you think the fairy visited the queen?” “Because their daughter is g...
