Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire, #14)

by Craig Johnson

Power is everything, anything else is simply a means to power.”

the greatest thing you can do to respect the dead is to remember them, to keep them in your mind so that they do not slip away into that cold, dark infinity that awaits all of us.

I think the Porfirio Díaz quote says it all: “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so near the United States.” It’s difficult to have a country such as Mexico, which is still developing, so near a superpower like America and not have it have an undermining effect—even today.

The title comes from the Albert Camus quote, “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

Influences I’d list would be J. P. S. Brown, the author of The Forests of the Night and Jim Kane, who is and always will be one of my favorite authors, along with Steinbeck (The Pearl), Carlos Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan), Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses), and Malcolm Lowry (Under the Volcano). There are other, nonfiction influences such as Shod with Iron by border patrolman C. M. Newsome, The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County Line by Thad Sitton, and Bill Jordan’s No Second Place Winner.