Joe Pickett Series Bundle (Book 7-12)

by C.J. Box

Free Fire
Joe Pickett's been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blooded mass killings in Wyoming history. Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National Park - a 'free-fire' zone with no residents or jurisdiction. In this remote fifty-square-mile stretch a man can literally get away with murder. Now McCann's a free man, and Pickett's about to discover his motive - one buried in Yellowstone's rugged terrain, and as dangerous as the man who wants to keep it hidden.

Blood Trail
Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp-strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer and stop him, before someone declares open season on humans...

Below Zero
Six years ago, Joe Pickett's foster daughter, April, was murdered. Now, someone is leaving phone messages claiming to be the dead girl. As his family struggles with the disturbing event, he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. And as the phone calls grow closer, so does the danger...

Nowhere to Run
It's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real-and all too deadly.

Cold Wind
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. It wouldn't be a problem for Joe Pickett, if Missy weren'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. 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.

Force of Nature
Years ago Joe Pickett's best friend, Nate Romanowski, was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it - like Nate, who's hidden himself away in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. And he knows exactly how Nemecek will do it-by targeting Nate's friends to draw him out. That includes his friend, game warden Joe Pickett, and Pickett's entire family. The only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn't sure about his straight-arrow friend. And all their lives could depend on it.

Genres: Crime

Kindle Edition

Published July 4, 2019

About the author

C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.

Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. They have three daughters. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Box lives in Wyoming.

--from the author's website

Series:
* Joe Pickett

http://us.macmillan.com/author/cjbox

Reviews

[Michael Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Joe Picket's continuing story

This is a collection of books 7 - 12 in the series. Having been sacked from his game ranger position at the end of book 6, Joe is now being used by the Governor in a number of special assignments. These are not all to Joe's liking and leave him exposed to conflict and both physical and political danger.

In the series Joe is 're-united with his friend Nate and learns more of his story. As he has promised, Nate continues to support Joe and protect his family.

Book 12 is largely based on Nate's story and finishes with a conclusion to some elements of this but leaves unanswered questions.

Overall an engaging series of stories set against the background of the American North west.

[Felicity Skye]

So good

Oh I love these stories, I am a bit in love with Joe and Nate. After over I think 4,000 pages so far they are part of my life lol. The writing is so well done you just get sucked into the wave of excitement and it doesn't stop. This is the second bundle I have read. There are so many elements I love about these stories.....on to next .

[Mike Stewart · Rating 5 out of 5]

CJ excels

A collection of really great action packed stories from Mr Box. The characters are real if not very unusual and the stories develop rapidly. I love the descriptions of the great western mountains of the USA. Very special.

[Tony Rutherford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Freedom Arms

Joe and Nate at their best, finally a conclusion as to why Nate has been off grid all these years!!!

[Gregoire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Toujours aussi agréable à lire mais je vais attendre un peu pour lire les suites pour ne pas être lassé et pour connaitre, à travers ses enquêtes, la suite de la vie de Joe Pickett

[David J Bell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Epic Tale

Great storytelling and a compulsive page turner. I'm with Joe and Nate every step of the way. A thoroughly good read.