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C. J. Box's best-selling Joe Pickett novels have earned him a spot on every serious suspense fan's shortlist of favorites. The tightly constructed Out of Range brings game warden Joe to a new, remote beat in Wyoming's vast countryside to investigate the suspicious death of the previous warden.
In Box's taut, suspenseful fifth Joe Picket novel (after 2004's Trophy Hunt), the Wyoming game warden is temporarily transferred from his backwater base, Saddlestring, to Jackson, a sophisticated tourist mecca, to replace warden Will Jensen, who apparently shot himself to death. Joe has his doubts about Will's "suicide," but little time to investigate given other distractions: a vast and remote territory to patrol, questionable practices by a hunting outfitter, pressure to approve an exclusive housing development on a wildlife trail and protests by animal rights activists. At home, Joe's contentious wife, Marybeth, deals with mysterious threats and daughter Sheridan's teenage angst. To complicate matters further, Joe's reputation as a hardheaded law enforcer, unwilling to play politics, precedes him. Unusual for the genre, the skillfully orchestrated climax doesn't include a chase and the conclusion is ambivalent. Adept at setting his scenes, physically and psychologically, Box approaches Nevada Barr in his ability to describe the West's natural beauty. With each book he creates plots of greater complexity, but in contrast to his ever more nuanced male characters, his women remain too often flirtatious or angry. Agent, Ann Rittenberg. Author tour. (May 5) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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William Gluck
reviewed Out of Range (Joe Pickett Series #5) on September 07, 2011
Out of Range (Joe Pickett Series #5)
One thing I love about reading is discovering a book you love by an author you've never read before. C. J. Box is one of those authors. (Ann Patchett is my other new favorite author.) I've never read his work even though I had seen his books in bookstores. Out Of Range is a great story. I picked it up because the story takes place in Jackson, Wyoming (where my WIP takes place. I wanted to read how a Wyoming native wrote about the same location).
Box is a storyteller, in the best sense of the word. His writing is pure and never gets in the way of the story. Specifically, the hero Joe Pickett (this is apparently his fifth Pickett novel) is a fully developed, complicated man. He seems authentic and yet relateable, even for someone who's never personally dealt with a game warden. But my favorite element of this novel is the number (at least five, maybe seven) of "bad guys" in the story. Box kept me turning the pages because so many of his characters made me nervous - I was anxious to find out who did what, and what they were going to do next.
I read this book in a couple days, and I'm very glad I did. I might even read another C. J. Box novel in the near future. I can't give it five stars because it seems a little cookie-cutter, but believe me when I say: I love cookies.
Four stars.
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