The book reads very quick and smooth, with well-paced action and dialogue, and is hard to put down. There are a lot of good vignettes, plot twists, and glimpses into the Grey Man's very grey past to keep your attention and make you laugh. I'm looking forward t the next book in series. Meanwhile, this is a good book to read in in one sitting, or as a couple chapters at a time. This is good home cooking and comfort food for the reader - warm, filling, easy to read, and leaving you in the mood for more as dessert.
In the twilight years, our hero (Mr. Cronin) comes to the official end of his career as a sheriff's deputy, and gets closer to handing family authority to his granddaughter and her husband. The old wolf still has a lot of surprises, and many tricks to teach his pack and their cubs. The book, like others in the series, is written as a weave of related vignettes. The Grey Man mentors his grandson-in-law to be a better deputy and his successor as chief investigator, with a number of poignant and funny tales.
Along the way, his granddaughter Jesse and her husband Aaron take up the family mantle of local leadership in business, law, and community, with Aaron's battle buddy/ranch manager Matt and his wife, often times with great hilarity. One particular example of justice and humor comes when an over-zealous rulekeeper attempts to shame the Grey Man and Jesse out of an Old West competition, for non-standard costumes, and calls for police to remove them from the location. There were only two problems with her rule keeping - the costumes came from the old house, in the Grey Man's grandparents' trunks, and she didn't realize who the old man really was Whoops.
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