by Cynthia Chow
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“You’re too huge to surf.” It’s an remark (incorrectly) acknowledged all through this twentieth within the Walt Longmire collection, resulting in the reason of why the 6’ 4” sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming has a surfboard saved in his cabin. Again in 1964, Walt Longmire was a Rose Bowl-winning soccer participant for USC, giving the Wyoming native an opportunity to surf the waves together with his greatest pal Henry Standing Bear. Their commencement from faculty additionally means dropping their deferment statuses, which is why the pair have enlisted within the Marines earlier than they’re drafted. A final hurrah on the waves has them performing a rescue from a sunken boat crammed with medication, beginning off a protracted collection of occasions that may comply with them throughout the nation.
On their method to their respective assignments, Walt and Henry are stranded in Arizona, the place they uncover a suspicious city owned by a choose and the place the shadow of a former Japanese internment camp nonetheless looms. It was there that these generally known as the Tokyo Twelve, a dozen internees, had been shot, hanged, after which burned in against the law that has since gone unpunished. Walt continues to see a childlike determine carrying a Noh drama masks haunting the city, and whereas Henry would possibly assume that his pal is dropping his thoughts the remainder of the city has grown accustomed to her presence.
Interspersed with these tragic scenes from the previous are courtroom scenes of the current, the place Walt testifies in his protection following an officer-involved capturing. Everybody concerned is aware of that Walt was in the correct for defending himself from intruders intent on his homicide, however the offender coming from a strong household implies that they’re demanding Walt’s head. Walt’s girlfriend/undersheriff Vic Moretti can also be pressured to testify, and her profane-laden testimony is a delight worthy of her being present in contempt. Again in 1964 Walt and Henry are overwhelmed with the tragedy of WWII nonetheless 20 years later, and the 2 discover themselves unexpectedly helped by a Japanese American detective and a half-Japanese bar waitress.
The horrors and injustices wrought by the imprisonment of Japanese People after the bombing of Pearl Harbor ought to by no means be forgotten, and the tragedy is that many People by no means knew of this within the first place. Their properties seized and forcibly relocated from the Western Coast to the frigid Midwest, hundreds of those Americans perished as a result of brutal situations and lack of well being care. Many in Hawaii are additionally unaware that there have been internment camps on the island, regardless of the well-known all Japanese American Marine 442nd regiment turning into essentially the most extremely embellished navy unit in American navy historical past. Walt and Henry share this ethical of quiet the Aristocracy and honor, wielding out justice with out concern for themselves or wanting rewards. That doesn’t imply that additionally they don’t proceed to mock and tease each other, with a pleasant banter that reveals their long-lasting shut bond.
That is a very new thriller that retains readers engaged in each timelines, and whereas Walt has grown older he stays as stalwart and efficient as he was in his youth. Skillful writing and compelling plots will preserve the Walt Longmire followers engaged and happy by means of to the top.
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