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Westerners and lovers of things Western, rejoice - there's a new book out by Wyoming writer C.J. Box, and it's a doozy.
Opening with the mysterious murder of a widely unloved Forest Service official, the plot quickly gyrates into a full-fledged thriller, Wyoming style. That means there's lots of wind and weather - fantastically harsh snowstorms and serene mountain landscapes - and plenty of big guns, rugged action and slightly or very out-of-whack characters of the type that seem to thrive out here. This novel comes on like a Rocky Mountain blizzard and won't let you walk away.
Box excels at presenting Western issues and people, giving us the big picture rather than a media stereotype. In Winterkill, he takes on the survivalist outsiders left over from Waco, Idaho (and who knows where else) and shows us that they are, in some cases, ordinary folks with real grievances against the feds and not just hard-core nut cases - although that's part of it, too. They take things into their own hands with disastrous results. And, of course, the government officials in question are just the sort we love to loathe.
While Box's wonderfully soft-spoken game warden Joe Pickett figures out who's killing the local feds, his foster daughter disappears with her real mother, giving a bitter poignancy to what would otherwise be a typical butt-kicking, gun-blasting mystery story.
Winterkill proves that Box, winner of Anthony and Macavity awards for his first novel Open Season, is one of the best new voices in the mystery game.
Jane Dickinson
City News
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Four weeks on the extended New York Times bestseller list...Optioned for film by producers Michael Besman ("About Schmidt") and Cameron Lamb...
This break-out novel from the author of the New York Times Bestselling Joe Pickett novels is "a non-stop thrill-ride…a provocative suspense novel that has you rooting for the characters every step of the way." -- Harlan Coben
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder—four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children’s fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children.
J. W. Keeley is a man with a score to settle. He blames one man for the death of his brother: Joe Pickett. And now J.W. is going to make him suffer.
Game Warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder. And meat.
This time, I wanted to write a mystery. Of course, the previous Joe Pickett novels are considered mysteries, or thrillers set in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming.
WINTERKILL is one of the TOP TEN MYSTERIES OF 2003 according to Oline Cogdill of the South Florida Sun Sentinal: "Few mystery authors who use the environment as a plot foundation are as even-handed an
Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box's Savage Run.
In advance reviews, Open Season has been pronounced "something special," (Booklist), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J.
