Next to Last Stand

Craig Johnson

Sep 2020 · RB Media · Narrated by George Guidall

About this audiobook

One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied
and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of more than a million copies a year,
was destroyed in a fire at the Seventh Cavalry headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in
1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the
Veterans’ Home of Wyoming, Walt Longmire is called in to try to make sense of a
partial painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing one million dollars, both found
in Stillwater’s foot locker, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist.

Walt is fond of the veterans who sit outside the home and wave at passing cars,
and he felt a particular kinship with Charley Lee, making him all the more eager to
untangle the mystery of the deceased man’s belongings. As he follows the money—
encountering some nefarious characters along the way—Longmire strives to make
sure that this investigation doesn’t become his own next to last stand.

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries,
the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western
Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella Spirit of Steamboat was
the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population
twenty-five.

George Guidall’s 40-year career in the theatre includes leading roles on Broadway,
Off-Broadway, and in regional theatres across the country. The recipient of an Obie
Award, he has appeared in over 75 productions ranging from Shakespeare to Neil
Simon. One of the audiobook industry’s most acclaimed readers, Guidall received
Audie Awards for his performances of A Widow for One Year and I Know This Much
Is True.

About the author

George Guidall is one of the most prolific narrators of audiobooks in the world. He has recorded nearly 650 unabridged novels, everything from "Crime and Punishment" and "The Iliad" to "Snow Falling on Cedars." He began his career as an actor, appearing on Broadway and touring Europe with Helen Hayes in the "Glass Menagerie," " Miracle Worker" and "The Skin of Our Teeth." He received an Obie Award for Best Performance Off-Broadway, and has continued his performances in theater for over 40 years. Guidall has also appeared on television, with roles on the soap "One Life to Live" and "Law and Order," and in movies such as "Malcolm X" and "Tales from the Darkside." His first job reading audiobooks was for the Library of Congress' American Foundation for the Blinds' Talking Books. Since then he has won the most prestigious Audiobook Award, the Audie Award, for Best Unabridged Narration of a novel for his recording of John Irving's "A Widow for One Year." He won the Audie again in 2000 for Wally Lamb's "I Know This Much is True."