In Vietnam, Standing Bear works as an expert sniper for RT One-Zero, Recon Team Wyoming and is partnered with Babysan Quang Sang, a sharpshooter from the indigenous Vietnamese Montagnard tribe. In the process of investigating this homicide, Longmire has a weekend off to meet up with his best friend, Henry Standing Bear, a Native American man who is part of the Cheyenne Nation or the Bear.
There, he befriends Mai Kim, a bar hostess and they grow very close. In Tan Son Nhut, Longmire spends a great deal of his time at a bar just outside Gate 055 near the “Hotel California” called the Boy-Howdy Beau-Coups Good Times Lounge. He tackles the case with the help of two other officers: Mendoza of air force security and Baranski of the Central Intelligence Division. In 1967, he is sent to the army base in Tan Son Nhut to investigate a possible drug smuggling operation after the son of a U.S. Longmire is drafted into the army as a USC graduate with an English degree. Although the two stories are interwoven in the novel, this summary will narrate each separately in chronological order. His first case back then also involved a murdered young Vietnamese woman – a local sex worker. As Longmire tries to figure out the dead woman’s identity, he can’t help but flash back to his days as a second lieutenant during the Vietnam War, where he served as a Marine investigator. However, he is recalled to duty when brothers and ranchers James and Den Dunnigan find the body of a young Vietnamese woman alongside the highway.
Longmire spends most of his time running for reelection as Sheriff and also acting as a rehab coach for his daughter, Cady, an ace attorney who is still recovering from the brutal assault she suffered in Johnson’s third Longmire novel, Kindness Goes Unpunished. The narrative jumps back and forth between the two periods, linking Longmire’s feelings and experiences. In Another Man's Moccasins, the story is divided between two investigations: the murder of an unidentified woman in the present day and Longmire’s first ever homicide as a marine in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Published in 2008, the novel returns the action to Longmire’s jurisdiction of Absaroka County, Wyoming, after the third novel’s detour to Philadelphia. Another Man's Moccasins is the fourth novel in Craig Johnson’s detective series about Sheriff Walt Longmire.
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