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C.J. Box has staked out memorable turf — the rugged landscape of Wyoming — for his series about game warden Joe Pickett. But as the title of "Out of Range" (Putnam, 308 pp., $24.95) suggests, in this book Pickett roams far from his home in the tiny town of Saddlestring.
He is relocated temporarily to Jackson Hole, after the warden there — a good friend of Pickett's — commits suicide. This puts Pickett in among the nouveau riche of Jackson, including a wealthy developer who crossed swords with the late warden. Pickett soon is convinced that his friend's death was not exactly suicide. He's also lonely for his wife and kids, guiltily attracted to the developer's wife and plagued by a legendary back-country guide who might be breaking the law.
Box writes well about Pickett's tangled personal woes, in clean and sturdy prose. He's good, too, on describing the tensions that exist between the old and new Wyomings. But the writer is at his best when his guy heads out into the mountains — then it's just Pickett and the Wyoming wilderness. By Adam Woog
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.
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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.
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