C.J. Box test fires the new .500 Wyoming Express revolver manufactured by Freedom Arms in Freedom, Wyoming. Research can be fun.

Doing research for an upcoming Joe Pickett novel, C.J. Box got permission to climb 200 ft. up the tower ladder to check out the top of a wind turbine in Wyoming.

C.J. Box shows off a Dorado (Mahi-Mahi) caught with a fly-rod in the Sea of Cortez in September of 2009.

C.J. Box participated in the Denver Kappa Kappa Gamma Books and Authors event in September of 2009 to help raise money for Craig Hospital.

C.J. Box visited with investigators for the Lewis and Clark County (Montana) Sheriff’s Department for research on an upcoming novel.

After winning the Edgar Award, C.J. Box met with MWA Grandmaster award winners Sue Grafton and James Lee Burke.

C.J. Box with the Edgar Award for Best Novel for BLUE HEAVEN presented by the Mystery Writers of America in April, 2009.

Maine hunters and readers (clockwise from top left) Dave Barter, Bill Leach, Tom Jutrus, and Cliff Hoover display C.J. Box novels during a recent hunt at their deer camp near the Quebec Border.

Photo By Roger Carey, 2008.

This photo is being used for the cover of the new Joe Pickett novel BELOW ZERO. Photo by Roger Carey