- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: GP Putnam And Sons; 1 edition (April 6 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0399156453
- ISBN-13: 978-0399156458
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.2 x 3.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #359,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Joe Pickett - A man of principles - Very Good,
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This review is from: Nowhere To Run (Hardcover)
First Sentence: Three hours after he'd broken camp, repacked, and pushed his horses higher into the mountain range, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett paused on the lip of a wide hollow basin and dug in his saddlebag for his notebook.
Game Warden Joe Pickett is making the last pass before going home through the territory he has been covering for the past year. He's following up on reports of vandalism and other hunter's game butchered out. He doesn't expect to run into twin brothers who resent being asked to follow the rules and nearly cost Joe his life. He also doesn't expect the only reason he escapes is a woman who may have been an Olympic contender but disappeared. His determination to enforce the law and to possibly rescue the woman sends Joe, with his friend Nate, back into the mountains and an old-West showdown. Box writes books that are entertaining, exciting and occasionally touching. He also writes book that make you think about the bigger issues and does it in such a way that doesn't preach or become didactic, but makes you weigh both sides of the question and make your own choice. That is a real talent. The character of Joe Pickett is one of an average man; very human, married, loves his family, loyal to his friends. He learns he is not invincible, but believes in his job even it's dangerous and, perhaps, not smart''It's my job. I do my job.' Even his wife, Marybeth, acknowledges his job is who he is''You do what you do because you're hardwired for it. You get yourself into situations because you have a certain set of standards...' That relationship and those principles give Joe the structure that defines him. The interaction between Joe and the other characters is believable, and occasionally humorous. In this book, Box has given Joe two very challenging enemies; both in terms of surviving against them, but opposition of views on issues that are very timely. One thing, of which I am becoming very tired, is the overuse by authors of the ignorant, obstructive, jealous superior official. Yes, I know it all-too-often exists, but it has become rather cliché. The pacing is wonderful; it fluctuates between tension and rest. Box's descriptions demonstrate his knowledge and love of Wyoming, and shares that with us by taking us along and letting us see what Joe sees, both in terms of its beauty and potential danger. The dialogue has a natural flow and refreshingly little profanity. This is a very good story. I became so involved, it was a one-sitting read for me and I am now anxious for the next book. NOWHERE TO RUN (Lic. Inv-Joe Pickett-Wyoming-Cont)- VG Box, C.J. ' 10th in series Putnam, ©2010, US Hardcover ' ISBN: 9780399156458
4.0 out of 5 stars
nowhere to run,
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This review is from: Nowhere To Run (Hardcover)
that c.j. box can really wite a great book. it was one of those that you coun't put down.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (77 customer reviews) 32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This book was so good I immediately ordered another title in the series.,
By J. Lesley "(Judy)" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nowhere To Run (Hardcover)
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Joe Pickett has only one more week to go in the territory around Baggs, Wyoming, before he will be heading back to take up his position of a game warden in Twelve Sleep Country. Back to his family. But in all good conscience Joe can't ignore the reports he's been hearing about campsites being vandalized and an illegally poached elk being stolen from the hunters who tracked the wounded animal and found the carcass neatly butchered. Pickett figures it will take him a week to make his way around the Sierra Madre of Southern Wyoming and then he's homeward bound. What he finds when he gets deep into the mountains makes him shiver with fear because something just isn't right. By the time he finds who is responsible for the strange happenings in the territory his life hangs in the balance and he's completely cut off from any help.
What a great book this was. Such incredible writing prowess by author C. J. Box that my heart was pounding while I read the account of the danger Joe Pickett was in. The descriptions of the magnificent mountains, lakes and valleys in Wyoming were so good I could visualize them without any problem at all. I liked the character of Joe mainly because he seemed like such a normal individual. Not a super hero, just a really dedicated man doing his job to the very best of his ability. The book seems at first to be a rather simple premise of a game warden protecting the area he is assigned to, but it slowly opens out into a much more complex story involving not just inter-state political rivalries, but also political agendas on a national level. The concepts of the rights of the individual in these United States is at the heart of this story. It was a wonderful vehicle for making the arguments concerning how much governmental control is too much and how much independence from that control can safely be allowed. All in all, a very thought provoking novel. This was the first Joe Pickett novel for me to read, but I have now bought the first book of the series, Open Season (A Joe Pickett Novel), and put Winterkill (A Joe Pickett Novel) on my Kindle. I can't wait for my husband to start reading about Joe Pickett. I'm thinking we will end up buying everything we can get our hands on written by C. J. Box. 26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
WOW! I couldn't put this down...,
By M. Tanenbaum - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nowhere To Run (Hardcover)
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As a suburban liberal blue state female, I'm not sure if I fit the typical profile of C. J. Box's readers, but I find his Joe Pickett series to be one of the best series of mystery/thrillers out there. I literally couldn't put this one down once I started in on it. I have read a number of titles in the series, completely out of order, so you can easily read this one even if you haven't read the earlier Pickett novels. I thought this one was one of the best so far. In a nutshell, Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden, working a temporary assignment in an isolated town where strange things are happening in the surrounding mountains, including an Olympic calibre female runner who went missing years ago. Joe just can't leave without investigating, and rides on horseback into the forest to check into the rumors. There he finds and confronts two mountain men, but when he demands to see their hunting licenses, he's in more trouble than he can ever imagine. These two brothers are deadly--what exactly are they doing in one of the most remote places in the country? and have they kidnapped the missing runner? As usual, this novel is an incredibly suspenseful page-turner. Box also takes time to offer glimpses of Pickett's complicated family life, in which his wife and daughters are trying to integrate a foster daughter into their family, and his rich mother-in-law is constantly interfering in his business. Box not only entertains, he also makes the reader think about political issues such as government involvement in ordinary life and the degree in which people should have freedom to live as they wish, even if they don't conform to society's norms. Highly recommended for Box fans and fans of suspense novels in general.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Joe Pickett does his duty and commits an injustice,
By Arthur Digbee - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nowhere To Run (Hardcover)
In his tenth Joe Pickett novel, C. J. Box continues to deliver the goods. There's an action-oriented plot with plenty of violence. Joe has a super-wife managing three difficult teenagers and an out-of-control mother-in-law. He's in trouble with his law enforcement colleagues and he still can't shoot a pistol straight. Though he's a state game warden, Joe manages to get involved in crimes that go well beyond his job description. In addition to these elements, C. J. Box has inserted an interesting ethical and political discussion into the heart of this novel. It's subversive of the genre in an interesting way, much as the Terminator who was not allowed to kill in James Cameron's T2. Unlike T2, the choices grow more naturally out of the character - - Joe Pickett is an upright law enforcer who has to confront a situation where the law may be unjust. This happens a few times in the Sherlock Holmes stories too, where Conan Doyle has Holmes let the perpetrators go. C. J. Box does not choose this easy route but a richer, probably less satisfying denouement. If you're looking for pure escapism in your fiction, the ending may not satisfy you. But if you don't mind thinking a bit when you put the book down, you'll find that it's Box's best novel yet. |
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