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Description

Award-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains--strung up, gutted, and flayed, as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body.

Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose Governor Rulon is forced to end the hunting season early for the first time in state history. Are the murders the work of a deranged antihunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta?

As always, Joe Pickett is the governor's go-to man, and he's put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies and poker chips turn up.

Bold, fast-paced, and with a controversial hook--hunting versus antihunting activists--Blood Trail is proof that C. J. Box is an ever-rising talent.

About the Author

C. J. Box is the author of eight 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 a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box has worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor, and currently serves on the board of directors for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo.

Praise for Blood Trail…

Praise for C. J. Box's Free Fire "Joe doesn't let us down, leading us on an exhilarating tour. . . ."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Box's absorbing seventh crime novel, his best yet. . . . Box skillfully weaves ominous scientific phenomena and legal loopholes . . . into his story of corruption, greed and deception."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Box sets the standards so high with his Joe Pickett series. . . . Box is a master at working New West issues into his stories . . . exploring pro and con arguments without missing a storytelling beat . . . he's forged a perfect alloy of familiar and fresh. . . . Once again, recommended for practically everybody."
-- Booklist (starred review)