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Savage Run

A Joe Pickett Novel

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Savage Run

By: C. J. Box
Narrated by: David Chandler
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An Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Award winner, C. J. Box delivers the second pulse-pounding installment in his critically acclaimed series. While investigating a string of bizarre murders, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is forced to flee across treacherous terrain with a deadly tracker on his trail.

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"Picturesque detailing, admirable prose, and agitating suspense demonstrate the appeal of this follow-up to Box’s Edgar nominated debut." ( Library Journal)
"Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box's Savage Run. Joe is called to the scene when an exploding cow kills a famous ecoterrorist, Stewie Woods, and his bride of three days, who were peacefully spiking trees. A visit to the cow's pugnacious owner leaves Joe defensive, angry, and curious: Why doesn't the rancher ask any questions about the bizarre accident that happened on his land? Then Joe's wife, Marybeth, begins receiving phone calls from her high-school boyfriend - the peculiarly healthy-sounding Stewie Woods. Stewie may or may not be alive, but his old pal Hayden Powell and other environmental activists are all turning up deceased in strange circumstances. As the body count climbs, Joe tries to sort out the bad guys, the good guys, and the truly dead guys in this sometimes funny, sometimes angry [novel]. Box depicts the spare beauty and cussed individualism of the intermountain West with the sure hand of a seasoned writer." (Amazon.com review)
Vivid Landscape Descriptions • Engaging Plot Twists • Excellent Narration • Likable Protagonist • Environmental Themes

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Game Warden Joe Pickett engages the forces of evil on opposing sides of environmentalists and ranchers in modern Wyoming. Both sets of villains were well developed as their evil, but opposing, plans unfolded. Joe Pickett and his family are honestly good guys. I especially liked the exploding cow as a murder weapon, but thought the author could come up with another imaginative tool when it was used again. I'll devour book #3.

Exploding Cow?

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Many twists and turns right from the beginning! I enjoyed the narrator quite a lot!

An interesting book!

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I'm certainly glad that I found this author and this character. Can't wait to get ahold of the next one.

Love Joe Pickett

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The book was worth listening to, well worth time spent. I recomend it to anyone who likes cop books

Great Enviro/cop story

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Box's flawed hero is the fulcrum for two forces "truth warriors". When each side believes that they are the only purveyors of the right way and truth, his family is in the center.

polarized Truths

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