The Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, even for game warden Joe Pickett and his friend Nate Romanowski in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller… Nate is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite professional special operators. They’re not there to threaten him, … They’re not there to threaten him, but to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming’s Red Desert, and in return they’ll make Nate’s criminal record disappear.
But they are not what they seem, as Nate’s friend Joe Pickett discovers. They have a much different plan in mind, and it just might be something that takes them all down—including Nate and Joe.
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I love this series. LOVE IT. I love each character. These books are why I procrastinate. If you’re looking for a straight up good mystery, a taste of living in the west, and hero that knows his flaws but doesn’t let them get in the way… you’re going to love this series. I suggest starting at book 1. This is not book one 🙂 But I love the secondary character Nate and this had lots of Nate.
Heros lived happy ever after but they needed some help innthe end.
Another great addition to the series. A little different in that Joe and Nate are operating without knowledge of the other’s role.
How Mr. Box keeps coming up with the predicaments that Joe and his friends get into is unbelievable. This one kept me guessing all the time what would happen next. I did kind of fee sorry for the bear (GB-53).
Awesome book
Great mystery set in Wyoming. Good for western buffs
I loved this book and really like the author!
Love author C. J. Box’s books, and the characters! This one was no exception. Read every one of them I can.
I like Box’s Joe Pickett novels.
They are peopled by engaging characters and filled with slow-building tension. You start reading and before you know it, are a hundred or more pages into the story.
All the primary characters are realistically drawn, the kind of people you’d like to share a beer with. Joe Pickett is everyman, an average guy doing his job and caring for his family to the best of his ability. That he’s no dead-eyed marksman and has a penchant for destroying the state-owned trucks he drives only adds to his human-ness.
But this one is only okay.
This entry in the series, like some earlier ones, features Nate Romanowski, Joe’s best friend, as much as Joe and is the newest episode in a long-running story arc about Nate. It’s been an interesting journey but I think it’s time Box wrapped it up by either killing Nate off or permanently resolving the dilemma he’s caught in.
And as in several earlier books, Box is riding the ‘Story Creep’ train here, writing a tale where Joe’s success or failure will have a much larger impact. Instead of dealing with people and crimes in his patrol area, this book has Joe facing off against terrorists threatening America. Box gives the terrorist plotline a new twist but even so, it has been done to death, so much so that it became stale a long time ago.
I’ll read the next Joe Pickett novel (and any others he writes) because Box is that good, but I hope he’ll go back to having Joe fighting crimes directly related to his game warden duties. Because if he continues down this road, I’ll drop him.
Good hero book which suspends reality quite a bit like Hollywood but entertaining and didn’t drag. There is some horror in it due to jihad. Second book I’ve read from the library by this author and I enjoyed it more than the BadLands, which dragged for me.