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Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers’ crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series. Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose-poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why? She learns that during World War II, several Wyoming soldiers were in the group that fought to Hitler’s Eagles Nest retreat in the Alps—and one of them took the Fuhrer’s personal photo album. Did another take this one and keep it all these years? When a close neighbor is murdered, Joe and Marybeth face new questions: Who is after the book? And how will they solve its mystery before someone hurts them…or their girls? Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is on the hunt for the man who stole his falcons and attacked his wife. Using a network of fellow falconers, Nate tracks the man from one city to another. Even as he grasps the true threat his quarry presents, Nate swoops in for the kill—and a stunning final showdown.
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers’ crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series. Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose-poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why? She learns that during World War II, several Wyoming soldiers were in the group that fought to Hitler’s Eagles Nest retreat in the Alps—and one of them took the Fuhrer’s personal photo album. Did another take this one and keep it all these years? When a close neighbor is murdered, Joe and Marybeth face new questions: Who is after the book? And how will they solve its mystery before someone hurts them…or their girls? Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is on the hunt for the man who stole his falcons and attacked his wife. Using a network of fellow falconers, Nate tracks the man from one city to another. Even as he grasps the true threat his quarry presents, Nate swoops in for the kill—and a stunning final showdown.
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From the coverChapter One The Moose That Wasn't
Lorne Trumley had called dispatch to report a dead moose on his ranch. Since it was two weeks after the close of moose-hunting season in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, Joe Pickett had responded.
He slowed down and then stopped his green Ford F-150 pickup in front of the closed barbed-wire gate. Engine running, he limped out and approached it, all the while keeping his eye on several Black Angus cattle who had poked their heads out of a seven-foot stand of willows to stare dumbly at him. Even though he was moving slower than usual, Joe was able to open the gate, drive through, and close it again before the spark of a bovine thought-We can run out on the road!-slowly worked its way through the cows' brains. By the time they'd realize their escape was possible, it would be too late.
He grunted as he dropped the iron loop over the top of the gatepost and levered it closed. Most of the muscles in his body still hurt, and he had stitches in his back and thighs from an encounter with a wolverine.
He wished old Lorne Trumley would replace the ancient wire gate and install a cattle guard at the entrance to his place. It was unlikely, though. Lorne was in his eighties, and like a lot of longtime local ranchers, he only fixed things for good after they'd been repaired so many times there was nothing left of them. And the three-strand gate still worked, sort of.
Joe winced as he pulled himself back into the cab. His Labrador, Daisy, scooted toward him on the front seat and placed her heavy head on his lap, as if offering sympathy for his infirmities.
He patted Daisy's head and eased down the worn two-track road that would take him to Lorne's home.
"Thanks, old girl," he said to her.
As he drove by, the cattle finally leaped to action and charged past him toward the closed gate. Yup, too late.
Lorne Trumley's Crazy Z-Bar Ranch was a fourth-generation holding spread over lush, unique landscape six miles west of the town of Winchester. It was largely a glacial river bottom, and the north branch of the Twelve Sleep River did a series of lazy S-curves through it, providing a version of a natural irrigation ditch. Trumley raised cattle and grew hay, and because of the river branch there was plenty of water, which was a rarity in the valley. The water sustained thick, tall stands of willow and knotty brush that divided the ranch land as if by windrows. It was a geothermal area as well, with warm-water seeps and heated quicksand that steamed in the winter.
The name of the ranch had nothing to do with the ownership or history of the place. "Crazy Z-Bar" was just a description of the brand used on its cattle: the letter Z tilted forty-five degrees to the left over a single line.
Joe knew from experience that the Crazy Z-Bar was a good place not to get stuck. The first time he'd come out to talk to Trumley about a change in hunting regulations, he'd mired his pickup in quicksand and had to walk the rest of the way to the house. After delivering a lecture about the big-game biologists in Joe's agency knowing absolutely nothing about anything and any change in the hunting seasons would be foolish as hell, the rancher had followed Joe back to his pickup in a tractor and pulled him out.
It was a cool day and the sky was close. The summits of the Bighorn Mountains were shrouded with cloud cover. Joe looked at the digital temperature display on his dashboard: forty-two degrees.
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For Joe, it felt good to go back to work that morning after lolling around his house for too many days. It felt right to him to pull on his red uniform shirt and pin on...
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October 1, 2021
A moose-poaching incident investigated by Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett turns out to be ugly--a local game warden has been tortured to death--just as a bland, unmarked package delivered to the library proves traumatic. When it's opened by Joe's wife, Marybeth, it contains the devastatingly awful photo album of a Nazi official. Where did it come from, and what does it mean for the entire Pickett family as Thanksgiving approaches?
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December 1, 2021 Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds a local fishing guide tortured and burned, while Joe's wife, Marybeth, discovers an unmarked package at her library containing a photo album once owned by a Nazi official. A connection between the two events is made, but only after the entire Pickett clan, home for Thanksgiving, is placed in danger, and one of their neighbors is murdered. Who would want that album so badly? What is still stirring in the ashes of WWII? Meanwhile, Joe's friend, Nate Romanowski, has gone off in a black rage to apprehend Axel Soledad, who stole Nate's falcons at the conclusion of Dark Sky (2021). With the help of Geronimo Jones, a fellow falconer, Nate looks for Soledad in a Denver besieged by militant antifa adherents. Together, the pair follows a bloody trail to Portland and one last shoot-out. Box expertly maneuvers readers through two entirely different stories in this twenty-second entry in the immensely popular series. Fans can look forward to an upcoming Joe Pickett television series from Paramount Studios/Spectrum Originals.
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January 1, 2022 International intrigue crashes into Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming. Good news, bad news for Game Warden Joe Pickett. He's still recovering from the physical damage he suffered in his last outing, Dark Sky (2021), but he's been moved into a bigger, better sited house since his old one was torched. The discovery of freelance fishing guide Bert Kizer on the grounds of the Crazy Z-Bar Ranch is clearly connected to a hagiographic album of Nazi photos from 1937 that's captured the interest of Marybeth Pickett, Joe's librarian wife. Why would someone have tortured and killed Kizer after all these years to learn the location of the album? As Joe and Marybeth await the arrival of their three daughters for what turns out to be "the worst Thanksgiving we've ever had," Joe's old friend Nate Romanowski heads off to Colorado in the hope of catching up with Axel Soledad, the outlaw falconer who beat Nate's wife, threatened his baby, and stole his falcons. After a few rounds of preliminary fencing, Nate realizes that Geronimo Jones, the Black Lives Matter activist who tipped him off about Soledad's location, is a perfect partner for him. But neither of them realizes that Soledad's activities will lead them into a lot more violence than they're ready for and, ultimately, to a last-minute reunion with Joe, who's called on to go up against "the Eric and Donald Trump Jr. of Hungary." The broader political overtones aren't an unmixed blessing, and the socko climax ends predictably, but Joe's 22nd adventure continues to give good value. Old-school Nazis, newfangled terrorists, Big Sky country--it's all here.
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January 24, 2022 Bestseller Box’s subpar 22nd Joe Pickett novel (after 2021’s Dark Sky) opens with the Wyoming game warden called to a rancher’s land to check out a dead moose. The purported moose turns out to be the burned body of a local fishing guide, who was apparently tortured before he died. Meanwhile, Joe’s wife, the director of the county library, finds a rare Nazi artifact left on the library’s doorstep: a photo album that once belonged to a high-ranking Nazi officer. That memento is also of interest to a pair of violent Hungarian brothers who’ve been dispatched to Wyoming to grab the album utilizing any means necessary. An unconvincing subplot involving the efforts of Joe’s best friend, Nate Romanowski, to reclaim his precious falcons abducted by a villain intent on selling them on the black market for nefarious purposes sputters out, but Box resolves the murder case and the hunt for the Nazi photo album with his usual panache. Series fans will hope to see more of a promising new character, rough-hewn falconer Geronimo Jones, but this isn’t the place to start for newcomers. Agent: Ann Rittenberg, Ann Rittenberg Literary.
February 1, 2022
In Box's 22nd Joe Pickett novel (after Dark Sky), Joe is called out to investigate a moose shot out of season; when he arrives, he finds instead the burned and tortured body of a local fishing guide. The same day, his wife Marybeth sees a mysterious old man at the library who leaves an unmarked package. The package contains a photo album belonging to a high-ranking Nazi officer who was hung for his crimes. Alternating chapters tell of Nate Romanowski's pursuit of the man who beat up his wife and stole his falcons. While Nate tracks the man from city to city, Marybeth and Joe try to link the crime and the photo album, and Marybeth does a lot of investigating to discover more information about World War II soldiers from Wyoming. When the Picketts' neighbor is murdered, Joe is pressed to solve the mystery before his family--especially his daughters who are home for Thanksgiving--is put in harm's way. VERDICT There is a lot going on in this book with the alternating storylines of the Picketts and Nate, but Box keeps everything flowing and easy to understand. Purchase where the series is popular.--Brooke Bolton
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