Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a
town where nearly everyone hunts—and where the game warden, especially one like Joe
who won’t take bribes or look the other way, is far from popular. So when he finds
a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his
state-owned home, he takes it personally. And even after the “outfitter murders,” as they have been dubbed by the
local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe
continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local
police.
As Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon
discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he
brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living
in his woodpile. But if word of the existence of this endangered species gets
out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural
gas company, building an oil pipeline that would bring the company
billions of dollars across Wyoming—and through the mountains and forests of Twelve
Sleep. The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the
endangered species, and InterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he
holds dear.
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