• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2021 February #1
  Wyoming is basically one big plateau where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains, and if you have never been there, it is hard to imagine the imposing landscape, but Box makes you feel in the middle of it, sometimes uncomfortably so, in this twenty-first entry in his series, starring game warden Joe Pickett (after Long Range, 2020). Joe is asked by the governor to accompany a Silicon Valley CEO on an elk-hunting trip. The sky is dark, the snow won't stop, and the cold is unrelenting as the outing rapidly transforms into a manhunt, with Joe and his party the prey, hunted by three mountain men determined to avenge a family member driven to suicide by the CEO's social-media site. Joe's closest friend, Nate Romanowski, and his own daughter, Sheridan, eventually come to the rescue, and the story ends in a cliff-hanger, with Nate headed out to seek revenge of his own. A strong entry in this long-running and wildly popular series. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Box's novels have been translated into 27 languages and regularly appear on best-seller lists, a testament to the strength of his writing and the popularity of the melding of western and crime genres. Copyright 2021 Booklist Reviews.

C. J. Box is the author of twenty Joe Pickett novels, six stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, and has been a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box has also worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He lives outside Cheyenne with his family. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.