All he wants to do is recapture the drunken fool and get back to town before the snow. Hand cuffed to the steering wheel he sets off in pursuit. He doesn't have keys to these handcuffs but he does have a Leatherman tool which he uses to detach the steering wheel. Joe makes the arrest but then finds himself handcuffed to his steering wheel. Joe goes to investigate and discovers that the shooter is a Forest Service Supervisor for the area, Lamar Gardiner.
Suddenly shots ring out and several elk go down. It is late in the hunting season and there is a storm warning for heavy snow later in the day.
This story opens with Joe parked in his truck watching a herd of elk in a meadow below. He also often finds himself in unusual and embarrassing situations. Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden with a large territory to cover and is usually by himself. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.īox 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. 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.
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. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series.
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