In the third adventure in C. J. Box's engrossing series, Joe Pickett finds himself at the center of a confrontation between a special investigative team and a group of government-hating survivalists campedout on federal land. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Joe lays his life on the line to protect an innocent girl before a wave of violence surges over the Bighorn Mountains.
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"Another great modern day cowboy story involving many bad guys meeting their match when they come up against the great Joe Pickett. C J box has a fabulous ability to draw you into the mountain environment and its inhabitants."
— ROGER (5 out of 5 stars)
“Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett strides in big boots over the ruggedly gorgeous landscape of C. J. Box’s outdoor mysteries.”
— New York Times Book Review“Exquisite descriptions…[Box’s] story moves smoothly and suspensefully to the showdown.”
— Washington Post“Winterkill proves that Box…is one of the best new voices in the mystery game. [It’s] a full-fledged thriller, Wyoming style.”
— Rocky Mountain News“Box makes it a resounding three for three with this worthy successor to last year’s celebrated Savage Run…Pickett remains an utterly sympathetic, Gary Cooperish hero…A superb mystery series with an urgent message for troubled times.”
— Booklist (starred review)“Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett returns in this third adventure in C. J. Box’s tough, tender, and engrossing series, which just keeps getting better…A tense, taut thriller marked by lyrical renderings of the harsh, beautiful landscape, Winterkill’s subtext, as in Box’s previous novels, is the conflict between individual rights and freedoms and governmental power that continues to smolder in the towns and valleys of the American west.”
— Amazon.com“Box’s stalwart prison warden, Joe Pickett, is put to the test in his third grueling adventure in the Wyoming mountain wilderness.”
— Publishers Weekly“Exquisite descriptions…[Box’s] story moves smoothly and suspensefully to the showdown.”
— Washington Post" CJ never disappoints...often it is had to decide which is your favorite....an easy read again!!! "
— Principal9817, 10/15/2022C. J. Box is the New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett series, six stand-alone novels, the Cody Hoyt series, the Cassie Dewell series, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He has also been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty-seven languages. A Wyoming native, he has worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He is an executive producer of ABC TV’s Big Sky, which is based on his Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell novels, as well as executive producer of the upcoming Joe Pickett television series for Paramount TV.
David Chandler is an Earphones Award–winning narrator who has read numerous titles for New York Times bestselling authors William Kent Krueger and C. J. Box, among others.