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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett returns in C.J. Box's Out of Range. As the book opens, Pickett's archnemesis, his mother-in-law (did you know that "mother-in-law" is a perfect anagram of "woman Hitler"?) is about to be married for the fourth time. It has been quite the production, referred to by close participants as "Operation Massive Ranch Wedding," albeit never within earshot of the prospective bride. During the reception, Pickett receives the news that fellow game warden Will Jensen has committed suicide, and that he (Pickett) has been tapped to be a temporary replacement. It means a short-term move to Jackson Hole, as dissimilar an assignment as can be imagined within the confines of Wyoming. Here Joe will have to navigate a minefield of developers, conservationists, politicians, wealthy landowners and one problematic affair of the heart. Problem one: she's married. Problem two: so's he. Problem three: and not to each other. As if this weren't enough, there is plenty of strain on the home front—anonymous threatening phone calls, an obstinate daughter in the throes of early womanhood and some of the most recalcitrant cell phones in the history of communications. In the midst of all this, Pickett can't seem to shake the notion that there is more to Will Jensen's apparent suicide than meets the eye. Box captures the struggles of a family trying to make ends meet on a civil servant's salary, the workaday life of a game warden and the vast powers of humans pitted against nature (and other humans, for that matter) in one of the last wilderness areas of the continental U.S.A.
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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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