Game Warden Joe Pickett returns in a twisting, action-packed tale of greed, power, and murder from award-winning author C.J.Box.

Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy his mother-in-law's wedding to local big-shot rancher when he receives some disturbing news: Will Jensen, a fellow Wyoming game warden and good friend, has killed himself. And Joe's been picked to tem-porarily run Jensen's Teton district.

Jackson , Wyoming , is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring. An elite playground for the rich and powerful, and the epicenter for many environmental extremists, it's a different world-and Joe quickly finds himself in over his head in his new job. Worse still, he misses his wife and daughters.

Yet despite the pressures of his new job and his growing attraction to a married woman, Joe begins to question the circum-stances of his friend's suicide. While he can find no evidence that Jensen didn't take his own life, certain facts seem to indicate he was driven to it-and Joe becomes obsessed with finding the reason why.

Back at home in Saddlestring, Joe's wife, Marybeth, struggles to hold her family together in her husband's absence while balancing the demands of her growing business. After receiving a series of threatening phone calls, she to Nate Romanowski for assistance, not realizing she's opened the door to much more than a helping hand.

As Joe closes in on the truth about Will's death, he begins experiencing blackouts, unpredictable mood swings, and memory loss-the same things that afflicted Jensen before his death. With his life spiraling out of control, Joe realizes that if he's not careful, he may end up as Jackson 's next fatality.

Cast against the harshly beautiful Teton mountains, Out of Range is excep-tional novel. It proves once again that C. J. Box is one of the most original and enter-taining voices in mystery fiction today.

 

C. J. Box is the author of five Joe Pickett novels and has won the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre.38. He has also been an Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box has worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He serves on the board of directors for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo and lives outside Cheyenne with his family.