- Nowhere to Run (A Joe Pickett Novel)

Great series

Joe is travelling on his last role before he gets to return to his home territory. While he is searching for who stole, butchered and removed an elk from another hunter, he encounters a man fishing and wants to see his license. He brings him to his camp and cannot produce a license. He writes a citation and sees other suspicious things in the camp. As he leaves their camp, they ambush him and shoot him with an arrow in the thigh. He shoots at them and then crawls away to get down the mountain. The men also shoot his horses with arrows. As he limps down the mountain, he finds a cabin in the woods that shouldn't be there. He collapses and wakes up be care for by a woman that bandaged his leg and wants him to go away. Joe has to piece together who the woman is and how is she involved with the 2 men. A very sad story evolves on many levels and you want to understand the whole history without taking sides. It makes you see the true government and corporate swindles that happen all the time. Another great read!

A good story that is well written and enjoyable to read. It's a sad story of two brothers who meet with a sad fate. It will be interesting to see how the ending of this book changes the characters in future episodes.

This book is one of the best books I've read in a long time. I really enjoy how the main character, Joe Picket, handles all the situations he gets himself into. In the beginning of the book, the Wyoming Game Warden is in search of an elk that had been shot and butchered before the hunters found it. Joe is packing his two horses along with him investigating the mystery in the Sierra Madre mountain range. The story just gets better and better after this point. He gets tangled up with two twin brothers in the mountains and gets injured, narrowly escaping their clever and hostile actions. All throughout the book, Joe is determined to get revenge on the two brothers. But, hidden deep inside the mountain range, is another mystery Joe must uncover. The plot progresses with many important parts in the book. A girl missing in the same mountain range Joe was in has made headlines again. A group of agents from Michigan has come all the way to Wyoming in search of the twin brothers. Later in the book, Joe finds out that the missing girl may be living alongside with the brothers. Joe promises his wife that he will never go back and get revenge on the twins, but when the parents of the missing girl come and plead to Joe to find their daughter, he decides that he must to go back. The plot of this book kept me on edge throughout the entire book and kept me eagerly turning the pages. The setting of the book is mostly placed in the Sierra Madre Mountain Range in the southeastern part of Wyoming. I myself have been to these mountains and they are very beautiful. Very high peaks all topped with tall pine trees and alpine slopes. It is a very beautiful part of Wyoming. Part of the book is also set in Billings, Montana while Joe is in the hospital after his brawl with the brothers. The main conflict in the book is the two brothers living in the mountains. No one knew that they were living there. And after Joe encountered them, it opened up a new mystery. Why are they living up in the mountains by themselves? The resolution of the story is solved when Joe and his friend Nate Romanowski encounter the brothers again after the twins killed most of the agents from Michigan and wounded a sheriff. With Joe briskly walking towards the brothers with a shotgun in his hands and Nate hidden in the trees to the left of the twins with a .454 rifle....you have to read to story and find out how it ends. Overall, this is one of the best books I've ever read. Its the first C.J Box book that I have read and I hope to read more of his books. I really enjoy how he writes the story and how the book progresses. It kept me turning the pages hour after hour and I never wanted to put the book down. I fully recommend this book to anyone that wants to read about a great mystery.

Game warden Joe Pickett is about to return to his home district, after a year posted to Wyoming's most remote station. But he's undertaking one last horseback patrol in the Sierra Madre to check up on a stolen elk. The plot evolves around the horrors Joe encounters deep in the ominously silent woods. Before he knows it, he's under attack and wondering if he'll ever see his family again. He's outgunned, outnumbered and outsmarted - and clueless as to what's going on. This torturous, nail-biting episode is definitely the high point of the book. Another memorable scene comes later with Joe engaged in a showdown straight out of the Old West. C.J. Box outdoes himself in the action scenes in Nowhere to Run. I also loved his terse descriptions of majestic and menacing terrain. We ride with Joe along canyon after canyon, by high alpine lakes, among toothy rimrock ridges, and through old growth forests. Often the behavior of animals warns Joe when's something's not quite right. Box's politics can be confusing (at least to me). He seems to sympathize with renegade types who hate government. Yet his hero, Joe Pickett, is a "government man" dedicated to enforcing laws and regulations. I don't worry about these mixed messages. Box's plots require intense conflict, after all, with everyone on all sides fully armed. So I sit back and enjoy. The Joe Pickett novels may not be high literature, but they're well written where it counts, deftly plotted, full of quirky characters - and deliver visceral thrills at a rapid-fire rate. I could nitpick and find flaws - but I'd rather appreciate the fascinating world Box has created. Nowhere to Run is good solid entertainment with a tangy Western flavor.

A lot of Twists until the very end !!! Hope the next book lives up to this one. Keep reading Joe Pickett

I've read all of Pickett mysteries up to this point. I think C.J.Box is a capable writer and seems to have gotten better with time. His mysteries set in the beautiful Wyoming country are well paced and intriguing . I do think the political views portrayed are overly simplistic and not in touch with modern day realities. I think the old west attitudes are often romanticized by people because in this hectic world it represents a simpler time when people roamed the open country without fences (actual fences along with the legal and political ones). What has changed? For one thing, the population has grown from about 38 million in 1870 to over 300 million. On the heels of this growth has come the laws to cope with the increased congestion. Laws to "manage" our forests and wildlife have actually been an attempt to manage humans in order to preserve what we have left. The "socialism" we now have provides education for our kids, assistance to the disabled, care for the old and some assurance that the poor won't starve. It's tempting to admire the brothers portrayed in this book and their desire to escape it all but in reality one would have to give permission to 300 million people to do the same thing and adopting a brutal territorial attitude as they did would probably lead to much more bloodshed then we could imagine,not to mention the loss of most game. Hopefully C.J.Box will temper his views with 21st century realities.

Once again, Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett makes a serious error in judgment that nearly costs him his life. On his last day as the warden of the area around Baggs, Joe decides to investigate a location high in the mountains where disturbing tales of vandalism of cars and cabins and game violations have been reported with whispered rumors of supernatural Wendigos being the cause. What Joe discovers—a pair of 6’5” identical twins with almost supernatural strength, speed, and agility and the ability to move silently through the forest and to shoot with the skills of a sniper—nearly costs Joe his life when he foolishly refuses to back down from his decision to issue them tickets for poaching, despite their not-so-veiled threats that he should walk away. The terror that Joe is subjected too and his decision to face them again to save a woman who might possibly have been held hostage make for a terrifying but exciting adventure. Highly recommended.

Really action filled and adventure read. One of the best books in the series and really worth a read. Must see

All C.J Box books are good reads, especially the Joe Pickett

Veramente contento di aver iniziato questa saga. Oltre a tenermi in allenamento con l’inglese, adoro Joe Pickett e il suo mondo in mezzo alla natura.

ピケットシリーズで邦訳を待ちきれず手を出したがほのかな読後感で満足した。密猟中の兄弟をみつけ違反切符を切ったら逆襲され、愛馬を殺され自分もボーガンで傷を負わされた。謎の女性に助けられたがまた襲われて命からがら逃げ出した。ところが総勢で山狩りしても痕跡が見つからず、夢でも見たのじゃないかと笑い物にされた。山に住むファーカスという釣り師が前半の舞台回しをし、ジョー個人の追跡が淡々と進行して、いつもの敵役や足を引っ張る話しが出てこず、愛妻メアリベスの絡みもなく、なんか調子が狂うなあ、と思っていたら後半になって政治家の土地利用の陰謀が密猟の兄弟と謎の女性に関係し始め、読者としては、そうこなくっちゃ、と安心する。ジョーの友人で凄腕のネイトの助勢を得て追跡劇は人情味溢れる結末へと至る。物語は文句なく面白いが、ただ今回は最愛の妻メアリベスと３人の愛娘が控えにまわったので男っぽいストレートな物語となっており、家庭劇や周囲からの嫌がらせに耐える強くも弱くもあるジョーを期待するファンにはちょっと物足りないかもしれない。ということですこし甘めの☆５つ。

Wer kennt schon Wyoming? Ich nur vom Hörensagen bis ich C.J. Box Bücher mit seinem Helden Joe Pickett gelesen hatte. Nun liebe ich Wyoming. Box gelingt mit seinen Romanen (die man in der richtigen Reihenfolge lesen sollte) ein so dichtes Bild des Lebens in Wyoming zu zeichnen, dass man meint, den Wind und die Eiseskälte zu spüren,die dort herrschen kann. Seine zwei Protagonisten Joe Pickett und sein Freund Nate Romanowski gewinnen von Roman zu Roman mehr an Profil und - obwohl sie grundverschieden scheinen - sind ihre jeweiligen Positionen gut herausgearbeitet und nachvollziehbar. Die Romane fangen immer sehr "langsam" an, mit Naturbeschreibungen und dem Alltag eines "game warden". Aber man sollte sich nicht täuschen. Es wird bald erstens sehr spannend und zweitens ziemlich heftig. C.J. Box hat in jedem Buch der Joe Pickett Reihe auch eine politisch agenda. Mal ist es die Auseinandersetzung über Windkraft, mal die Enteignungspolitik der Regierung. Immer mit dabei das Rassismusthema. Nie aber formuliert C.J. Box mit erhobenenem Zeigefinger. Er zeigt auf, was im alltäglich Leben dadurch passiert. Ich habe diese Bücher hintereinander weg verschlungen!