Description

Author/Contributor(s):	Box, C. J.
Publisher:	G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Date:	5/31/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Thefirst novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town wherenearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won’ttake bribes or look the other way—is far from popular. When he finds a localhunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-ownedhome, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter,with whom he’s had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to diein. Even after the “outfitter murders,” as they have been dubbed bythe local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joecontinues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by thelocal police.

As Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitterbrought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangeredspecies, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. But ifword of the existence of this endangered species gets out, it will destroyany chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural gas company, buildingan oil pipeline that would bring the company billions of dollars acrossWyoming, through the mountains and forests of Twelve Sleep. The closer Joecomes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the endangered species andInterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear.