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| Original Title: | Winterkill |
| ISBN: | 0425195953 (ISBN13: 9780425195956) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Joe Pickett #3 |
| Setting: | Wyoming(United States) |
C.J. Box
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4.19 | 11701 Users | 682 Reviews
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| Title | : | Winterkill (Joe Pickett #3) |
| Author | : | C.J. Box |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2004 by G.P. Putnam's Sons (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Suspense. Westerns. Mystery Thriller |
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A storm is brewingJoe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden with a large territory to cover and is usually by himself. He also often finds himself in unusual and embarrassing situations. This story opens with Joe parked in his truck watching a herd of elk in a meadow below. It is late in the hunting season and there is a storm warning for heavy snow later in the day. Suddenly shots ring out and several elk go down. It appears to be a single hunter. Joe goes to investigate and discovers that the shooter is a Forest Service Supervisor for the area, Lamar Gardiner. Drunk. Joe makes the arrest but then finds himself handcuffed to his steering wheel. He doesn't have keys to these handcuffs but he does have a Leatherman tool which he uses to detach the steering wheel. Hand cuffed to the steering wheel he sets off in pursuit. Embarrassing. All he wants to do is recapture the drunken fool and get back to town before the snow. But when he finds Lamar he has been murdered. Impaled to a tree with arrows and his throat slit.
At the same time a group of anti-government radicals has moved in and taken over a Forest Service campground. Lamar Gardiner worked for the federal government and the Forest Service and FBI move in to take over the investigation into his death. They are convinced that the anti-government radicals are responsible and Saddlestring, Wyoming finds itself possibly being another Waco or Ruby Ridge. There are those in the Forrest Service and FBI who are more radical than the anti-government radicals. Psycho. And at least one anti-government radical who seems like a decent person. Caught in the middle are the innocent citizens of Saddlestring. Including Joe's foster daughter, April.
Lots of messages in this story. What happens when the good guys are in actuality the bad guys? What lengths would you go to in order to protect your family? We meet Nate Romanowski who I believe will be in future stories. C.J. Box reminds us that sometimes we need someone like Nate. Looking forward to reading the next installment in this series.
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Ratings: 4.19 From 11701 Users | 682 ReviewsCritique Regarding Books Winterkill (Joe Pickett #3)
The third Joe Pickett murder mystery continues much where Savage Run left off.For me this was a two and a half star book. I've upped it to three stars in recognition of the author's continued ability to accelerate a story through its second half.Summary - it gets cold in the Rockies, very cold. The only half-decent lawman in Twelve Sleep County remains game warden Joe Pickett but sadly his family can't survive two books without child-related adversity. Various new people drop in to either addMore like 3 1/2 stars.
A forest service supervisor is murdered right after he goeson a shooting spree and slaughters a herd of elk. Warden JoePickett is in the area and hears all of the shooting. He findsthe supervisor impaled to a tree with an arrow. A mysterious stranger who trains falcons and carries an unusual weapon isarrested for the slaying. Next a special investigative teamheaded by a vindictive woman bent on a confrontation with a group of government survivalists camped out on government landarrives in town.
I decided to go meet the author at a Thursday evening event at the Highlands Ranch Library in Douglas County, so I checked out Winterkill on Monday. I only had time to read about half of it before his presentation, but I was hooked. And when I met CJ Box, it was like he just stepped out of his own book - I could tell that he writes his characters and his plots out of what he knows and loves. Box lives in Cheyenne, and his mysteries are set in Wyoming. Main character Joe Pickett is a game warden
#3 in the Joe Pickett series.Joe Pickett series - During a horrendous blizzard, he finds the body of Lamar Gardiner, "the District Supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest," pinned by arrows to a tree, near seven illegally shot elk. Sheriff "Bud" Barnum suspects a band of misfits, the Sovereign Citizens, which is camping in the forest, among them Jeannie Keeley, the birth mother of the Picketts' foster daughter, April. Pickett suspects locals killed the combative Gardiner. Soon, the
WINTERKILL VGC.J. Box 3rd in seriesJoe Pickett is caught in the middle between two sets of bad guys, one of whom works for the government, with the murder of a much-hated bureaucrat. A couple of bloodthirsty FBI agents are determined to use the incident as an excuse to attack a group of survivalists, a la Waco, Matters turn personal when Joe's foster daughter is kidnapped by her troubled mother, now living in the survivalist camp. This series gets better with each book. The character takes on
So we meet the mysterious and formidable Nate Romanowski, falconer and former special ops soldier, in this book-- the third installment in the series. Joe has another embarrassing moment when an arrested poacher cuffs him to his steering wheel and escapes in a blizzard only to be mysteriously murdered. Nate is immediately arrested and asks Joe to clear him. Joe has never met Nate but believes in his innocence. OBTW the mother of April, now living with Joe and his daughters since she abandoned
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