C.J. Box is a Wyoming native and he has been hunting and fishing his entire life. He has written eighteen mystery thrillers that feature Joe Pickett, -a Wyoming game warden.
In this book, Pickett is faced with an assassination group called
the Wolf Pack that carries out hits for a drug cartel and a mysterious local with
no discoverable past, who is flying a drone that has stampeded local animals. The
case becomes personal when he discovers that his teenage daughter is dating the
man’s teenage son. The FBI enters the picture and tries to keep Pickett from
investigating the man further while the connections between the so-called Wolf
Pack assassinations and the mystery man start to become apparent. The action tends
to go back and forth between the pastoral countryside and the brutal killings
by the Wolf Pack.
The book is nicely paced, but once you get used to his method
of alteration of violence with calm, it does become pretty predictable. I
figured out that the man with no background was in the Witness Protection
program before our detective got to it. From there on it was clear that the
four killers would have to meet Pickett and friends in a bloody
conclusion.
I enjoyed the background nature descriptions a lot because
on a trip to the west years ago, we drove through the Big Horn mountains and
were inspired by their rugged beauty. If
all of Box’s books are like this one they will be competently written and
appealing perhaps primarily to male readers who are drawn to old style cowboy
westerns in the more modern west.
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, a universal wolf,.
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce a universal prey,
And last eat up himself.
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