Steamboat
Craig Johnson's Spirit of Steamboat, a novella that grew out of a short story, is a masterpiece. Mr. Johnson is one of the great storytellers of our time.
This is about a mercy flight, in which Sheriff Walt Longmire commandeers an ancient World War Two bomber to carry a badly burned child to Denver's Children's Hospital in the middle of a blizzard. It is piloted by crusty, one-legged Lucian Connally, one of the famed Doolittle Raiders who surprised Japan in 1942. Everything that can go wrong does.
But at the heart of the story is the question, why did they do it? Risk everything to get a girl to a hospital when a blizzard has shut down roads and airways? Johnson discusses that, and does it beautifully.
This is about a mercy flight, in which Sheriff Walt Longmire commandeers an ancient World War Two bomber to carry a badly burned child to Denver's Children's Hospital in the middle of a blizzard. It is piloted by crusty, one-legged Lucian Connally, one of the famed Doolittle Raiders who surprised Japan in 1942. Everything that can go wrong does.
But at the heart of the story is the question, why did they do it? Risk everything to get a girl to a hospital when a blizzard has shut down roads and airways? Johnson discusses that, and does it beautifully.
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