“Impressive precision and heart-gripping suspense….Good characters, an extra good story, and great scenes of life and death in the wilderness”–New York Times Book Review Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder–a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance–in the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.When Joe Pickett is … C. J. Box.
When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly’s rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers–and the shooter.
The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe’s best friend, Nate Romanowski –just as he’s adjusting to the arrival of his first child–falls under suspicion for the crime. It’s a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate’s name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe.
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CJ Box can write an outdoor adventure. You can tell this author has spent plenty of time in the woods of Wyoming.
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All of C. J. Box’s Joe Picket books are well worth your reading time.
Never ceases to amaze, can’t put his books down.
Always enjoy his books. Very readable and you get hooked on them.
really enjoy C J Box
I enjoy reading all his books. Up to date so far.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. – P.G. Wodehouse
Author C.J. Box is back with #20 of one of my very favorite series – Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett. As always, Box writes a consistently exciting thriller. You would think that after this many books that the series might be getting stale but not so with this one.
Joe and his wife have moved into bigger company housing just as all their daughters are now in college. So they are having to get used to each other again in their “empty nest.”
Joe heads out to bring his expertise to a guide that was killed by a grizzly. While he’s gone someone tries to kill a judge with a very long-range shot in the Saddlestring District and shoots the judge’s wife by mistake.
Nate Romanowski, falconer extraordinaire, has started a legitimate bird abatement business using his hunting birds, running it with is wife. He now has a new baby and is trying to put his outlaw life behind him.
This book has more than one storyline and all of them are exciting. I love Joe, Nate, and I love Wyoming. I heartily recommend this book and the entire series.
I received this book from Putnam Books through Edelweiss in the hopes that I wo
uld read it and leave an unbiased review.