Nowhere to Run
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- ISBN13: 9780399156458
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning leader.
“Box’s series is the gold standard,” wrote Library Journal about Not more than Zero, but never has he written a novel as upsetting as Nowhere to Run.
Joe Pickett’s in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been weird things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won’t let him place lacking checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there’s the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn’t mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned. Because what awaits him is like nothing he’s ever dealt with, like something out of an ancient tale, except this is all too real and too deadly. When he’d first saddled up, he’d thought of this as his last make the rounds. What he hadn’t known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be.
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The first chapter sounds like every cliche of western horse fiction, with some forboding that indicates this will belong to the mystery or thriller genre. Once the action starts, the writing tightens up and the book gets better. Even then, the antagonists are implausible. For example, when Joe Pickett is shot by the wild brothers, they don’t end him off, even though they know he is a lawman and even though they know that he is out of ammunition. Why not ? Because if the brothers finished him off, there wouldn’t be any more tale to fill out the rest of the book.
The appealing aspect of this book’s plot is the association of simplicity/back-to-the-wild types of people with anti-Federal-government/property rights political beliefs. If leader C.J. Box wants to write a non-fiction book on that theme, I reflect he would have much to say that would be worth reading.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This latest novel by C.J. Box starts with high adrenalin and never lets up. This is my first Joe Pickett novel; and I,ve just learned a new favorite leader and series to follow, and I certainly will. From the first attack on page 22 through the climactic ending there is no let up in the TENSION! This is thriller fiction at its best! The leader is brilliant in plotting, chacterization, atmosphere, secondary characterization and an absolutly gorgeous presentation of the Wyoming and Colorado wilderness. He is an practiced in descriptive prose. The plot and subplots are masterful. Government abuse of power, socialism, injustice, individual freedoms are subjects handled expertly by this very gifted leader. I won’t go into the plot and ruin it for you; but, you owe it to yourself to get to know C.J. Box, and this is a fantastic novel/thriller to start with.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I have read all 12 of CJ Box books to date, and this one (“Nowhere To Run”) does not disappoint in any way. It is a fantastic tale and one that is in line with much of our current thinking today. Box is permanently well written, well researched, and with a superb list of characters, many of whom are carry-over from his previous Joe Pickett series books.
If you have not read his previous Joe Pickett writings, then you owe it to yourself to get a copy (preferably starting with the first relief – “Open Season”). They are all different and they are all brilliant.
Likewise, his stand-alone publications (2 of them to date) are also brilliant reads and I would highly recommend them. Personally, I can hardly wait for the next CJ Box stand-alone novel and of course nervously await (for another year anyhow if he stays to the same relief schedule as in the past, to date) the relief of the next Joe Pickett novel. I am permanently keen to see what Joe is up to and what situation he finds himself in.
CJ Box is a master tale-teller and truly a fantastic leader of the ‘New West’.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Joe Pickett, Wyoming game warden, confronts a situation not uncommon to law enforcement officers–offenders who refuse to comply with reason.
Pickett is ending his exile in an isolated area and nervous to get back home to his family tree. Report of a misdeed sends him into the mountains on one last clean up detail which pits him against a pair of brothers, nearly costs him his life, tests his morality and challenges his relationship with a close friend.
Pickett is a likeable and accurately drawn character. The pace of the novel is quick with plenty of twists and turns, engaging characters and excellent dialogue. The rightwing philosophy gets a small thick in places, but it fits the theme of governmental intrusion which set the stage for the action.
This was my first Box novel and it inspires me to read more. He knows his turf and makes a suspenseful tale.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book, like the rest in the series, is not fantastic literature. It is an action-adventure page turner that reads much a like a screenplay. If you are willing to suspend disbelief (a game warden whose activities, from one book to the next, are of keen political interest to the administrator?), you don’t care too much about character development, and you harbor romantic notions of what it would be like to abandon your desk job in favor of pursuing scofflaws on horseback through a gorgeous national park, then this book is for you. The best parts of the book for me were the leader’s descriptions of the Sierra Madre mountains where the action takes place. It makes you want to strap on your hiking boots and head for southern Wyoming.
If you are looking for some mindless entertainment to wile away the hours during a long plane ride, you could do a lot worse.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5