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In this gripping crime thriller set in the Wyoming wilderness, Joe Pickett is made an offer he just can't refuse...

Joe Pickett, fired from his job as Wyoming Game Warden, receives an unexpected visit from Governor Rulon. The wily governor has a special request, one Joe knows he can't refuse.

Lawyer Clay McCann slaughtered four campers in a far-off corner of Yellowstone, then immediately turned himself in. Yet as the crimes were committed on a sliver of land with overlapping jurisdictions, the so-called free-fire zone, nobody can try the worst mass murderer in Wyoming history for his crime.

Rulon, aware of the public outrage, will reinstate Joe if he'll investigate. With McCann deeply involved with unusually dangerous illegal activity, Joe realises the key to the murders may be hidden in the rugged terrain of Yellowstone itself.

When wealthy matriarch Opal Scarlett vanishes, Joe Pickett is sure one of her greedy sons did her in. But when Joe becomes the victim of violent pranks, he wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapter of his own past.

Game warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder.
Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy-all right, survive-his mother-in-law's wedding to a local big-shot rancher when he receives some disturbing news: Will Jensen, a fellow Wyoming game warden and a good friend, has killed himself. And Joe's been picked to temporarily run Jensen's Teton district.
Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring-it's the epicenter for many environmental extremists and an elite playground for the rich and powerful-and Joe quickly finds himself in over his head. Yet despite the pressures of his new job, he can't get his friend's suicide out of his mind. By all accounts, Will had changed in the last few months, becoming violent and unpredictable.
The closer Joe comes to the truth about Will's death, the more his own life spirals out of control-and he realizes that if he's not careful, he may end up as Jackson's next victim. "Out of Range" proves once again that C. J. Box is one of the most original and entertaining voices in mystery fiction.

A thrilling read set in the American West from New York Times bestseller C.J. Box, award-winning author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky.

Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, AND elk butchered.

And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn't mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home.

When he'd first saddled up, Joe had thought of this as his last patrol. What he hadn't known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be. Because what awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with: like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and too deadly.

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging killers – one animal, one human – in this riveting NEW YORK TIMES #2 BESTSELLING NOVEL from award-winning author C.J. Box.

A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage, killing, among others, the prospective fiancé of Joe Pickett's daughter.

At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up, is released from prison with a list of six names tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property.

Targeted are his lawyer, a judge, the county prosecutor, a prison guard, Joe's associate Nate Romanowski – and Joe Pickett himself.

Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates devises a method of violence identical to the bear killings and sets out to methodically check off his list. Can Joe stop him before he himself becomes the next target on the killer's list?

Could Joe Pickett's foster daughter, seemingly killed six years ago, still be alive? A gripping read from award-winning author and New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.

'Tell Sherry April called.'

A simple message that shakes Sheridan Pickett to the core. For April – foster daughter to Sheridan's parents Joe and Marybeth – has been presumed dead since a brutal massacre that Joe Pickett himself witnessed.

To Joe, it doesn't seem possible that April could have survived. But the person who now begins to text Sheridan is able to recall things only April would know about.

When the texts turn ominous, Marybeth discovers that they are being sent from locations where vicious murders have taken place. Desperate to discover if April really is still alive and if so, to protect her, Joe and Sheridan take to the road with Joe's associate Nate Romanowski.

Their paths will cross with a dying Chicago mobster on a mission of his own, as Joe and his family seek to discover the truth, and if the danger is as real as it seems.

Can Joe Pickett stop an old friend throwing his life away for revenge? The gripping NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL from multi-award-winning author C.J. Box.

The campaign of hate and vengeance that a pair of violent criminals wreaked on Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his friend, falconer Nate Romanowski, left both men in tatters, but it was Nate who came closest to losing everything.

Facing his lowest ebb, Nate decided his only option was to drop out of society. Taking his birds, he went off-grid to rediscover his true self… and prepare his revenge.

When Joe is called on to help the governor, whose son-in-law is missing in the Sierra Madre mountains, the investigation takes a darker turn when Joe and Nate's very different journeys unexpectedly converge.

All will come to a head at Battle Mountain, but in a struggle neither of them would ever have seen coming, can both Joe and Nate survive?

A thrilling read from New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. Joe Pickett's friend, military veteran Nate Romanowski, faces the battle of his life: one he may very likely lose.

Nate knows too much about Special Forces Black Ops' activities in Afghanistan, and his former comrades know the time has come to end the threat he poses once and for all.

Their plan incorporates a key tactic that served their secret unit so well overseas: recruiting locals. Nate can trust no one except Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett, who is constrained by his oath and duty to the law and the state.

But Nate must involve Joe because he knows his enemy will strike at his friends in order to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target. Nate can only fight back outside the law, and Joe must make a choice: help his friend or keep the peace?

A death in the family spells tragedy and trouble for Joe Pickett. A thrilling read from New York Times bestseller C.J. Box, award-winning author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series.

A body hangs from a wind turbine, a bullet hole in his chest: Earl Alden, millionaire property developer. His wife, Missy, is the prime suspect. The case seems open and shut. None of this would be a problem for Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett... if Missy wasn't his mother-in-law.

Missy claims she's innocent, and for his wife's sake, Joe would like to believe her, but all the early signs point to her being as guilty as sin.

Could the real killer still be out there somewhere? With his wife on one side and the law on the other, Joe needs to get to the truth before his family is ripped apart.