Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp-strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer and stop him before someone declares open season on humans.
WINNER DUBLIN Literary Award
"Box...spins a story crammed with shock and suspense." -SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Box knows what readers expect and delivers it with a flourish." -CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"An original voice." -MICHAEL CONNELLY
"A killer opening." -TAMPA TRIBUNE
"[Box] continues to be red-hot." -BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
"Box ratchets up the suspense in this tightly plotted example of his writing genius." -LIBRARY JOURNAL
C. J. Box is the author of twenty-three Joe Pickett novels, eight stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and two Spur Awards. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He's an executive producer of Joe Pickett on Paramount+ as well as Big Sky, both of which are based on his novels.
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Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp-strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer and stop him before someone declares open season on humans.
Awards
WINNER DUBLIN Literary Award
Praise
"Box...spins a story crammed with shock and suspense." -SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Box knows what readers expect and delivers it with a flourish." -CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"An original voice." -MICHAEL CONNELLY
"A killer opening." -TAMPA TRIBUNE
"[Box] continues to be red-hot." -BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
"Box ratchets up the suspense in this tightly plotted example of his writing genius." -LIBRARY JOURNAL
C. J. Box is the author of twenty-three Joe Pickett novels, eight stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and two Spur Awards. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He's an executive producer of Joe Pickett on Paramount+ as well as Big Sky, both of which are based on his novels.
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