Once it leaves the rifle it is too late to call it back. From the moment it leaves the rifle until the moment it strikes. The 20th book in the Joe Pickett series opens with the description of a bullet in flight. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.īox is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017.

He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series.

Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safeĬ. It's a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate's name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe's best friend, Nate Romanowski -just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child-falls under suspicion for the crime. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers-and the shooter. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder-a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance-in the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C.

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