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FREE FIRE debuts at #29 on the New York Times Best Seller List!
Joe Pickett returns, this time to the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. Deftly plotted and full of intrigue, Free Fire is C.J. Box’s best novel yet.
Joe Pickett, recently fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law’s ranch when he receives a visit from the governor. Governor Rulon – a devious but down-home politico – has a special request, one Joe knows he can’t refuse. For weeks, the headlines have been abuzz with the story of Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in a far-off corner of Yellowstone.
After the murders, McCann immediately turned himself in at the nearest ranger station. Seemed like a slam-dunk case for law enforcement – except that the crimes were committed in a thin sliver of land with zero residents and overlapping jurisdiction, the so-called free-fire zone. McCann has taken advantage of an obscure loophole in the law: neither the state nor the federal government can try him for his crime. The worst mass murderer in Wyoming history walks out of jail a free man.
Governor Rulon, sensitive to the rising tide of public outrage, wants his own investigation into the murders and will reinstate Joe as a game warden if he’ll go to Yellowstone “without portfolio” to investigate. Joe, happy to get his badge back, even under these circumstances, agrees.
It quickly becomes clear to Joe that McCann is deeply involved with some illegal activity taking place in the park – something tremendously lucrative and unusually dangerous. As Joe and his partner Nate Romanowski search for the key to the murders, they discover that it may be hidden in the rugged terrain of the park itself.
raves, "With Free Fire, C.J. Box delivers like a well-oiled rifle taking down its trophy elk at three hundred yards.
'When I think of crime committed out-of-doors, I think of Joe Pickett,' the governor says. So do we.
says, "...C. J. Box is a marvel. I learned more about Yellowstone National Park in the night it took me to read FREE FIRE than I did in 19 years of school..."
Among the new breed of thriller authors...[FREE FIRE is] Yellowstone in all its dangerous glory -- the author conveys a vivid sense of the park and its unpredictable topography..."
says, "Box is one of my favorite authors writing today. The depth of his skill shows on every page.
"C.J. Box has fashioned a splendid thriller, deftly plotted and skillfully executed...Previous Joe Pickett novels have earned Box numerous awards. This should bring him another...."
names FREE FIRE a "Critic's Choice" and says, "...A must read for anyone who's headed for Yellowstone this summer, and highly recommended for everyone else..."
Box makes brilliant use of the mystery novel as a forum to examine real issues of importance...."
The setting, action, new characters and old favorites join together to enrich this compelling tale..."
STARRED REVIEW* raves, "...absorbing...his best yet...The author vividly evokes Yellowstone's natural beauty, but the book's real power emanates from Pickett's (and Box's) passion for preserving the w
says, "...The plot is built on an ingenious premise...Free Fire is, at its heart, a mystery with a message.
*STARRED REVIEW* states, "...Box, winner of the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Mystery awards, knows how to turn on the nail-biting suspense and violence until the cliff-hanger of an ending...H
*STARRED REVIEW* says, "...Though Joe's far out in no-man's-land, as professionally on his own as he's ever been, the family man's moral compass is as strong as ever.
says FREE FIRE is, "absorbing...almost unimaginably exotic... Box is after bigger game..."
says, "The mystery is well paced and action-packed, and Pickett proves once again to be an appealing hero...."
reports, "Typical of a Box mystery, the book is deftly plotted and quickly paced, but the back-story in this novel is what is most improbable. In this case reality is stranger than fiction..."
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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.
