Blood Trail (A Joe Pickett Novel)
by C. J. Box
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Author: C. J. BoxEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN: 0425228088
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Berkley
Book Reviews of Blood Trail (A Joe Pickett Novel)
Book Review: A Pushover for Pickett
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't like books that begin with italicized prologues from a mysterious killer's point of view. And I really don't like gore, violence, and hunting. So why a glowing review for C.J. Box's ninth novel, BLOOD TRAIL?
I have a thing for Box's series protagonist, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
BLOOD TRAIL opens with the killing and flaying of a hunter. Stakes are raised as the body count rises and the media catch hold of a frightening trend that could mean the end of hunting in Wyoming. In order to avoid a public relations nightmare and a visit from Klamath Moore, radical spokesman for an anti-hunting group, the Wyoming governor brings in Joe Pickett as a special consultant on the case.
Dogged and principled almost but not quite to the point of priggishness, Joe is not the kind of state employee willing to bend rules, relax morals, or overlook wrong-doing. These are traits that resulted in a series of disastrous run-ins with superiors in previous books, leaving him without an official post as a game warden. They are also the traits that force him to take terrible chances and solve the case.
Pickett's opening salvo with his next-door neighbor highlights his discomfort with living in suburbia and his desire to return to the Wyoming wilderness. Box shines at bringing the wilderness to life through his lyrical writing, and his character's love for the wild open spaces and yearning to be back on the job are burnished to a glow.
Joe Pickett's relationships with his outlaw falconer friend, his wife, and his daughters ring painfully true. This time, Pickett is tormented by a growing distance from his older daughter, now a teenager. These astonishingly bittersweet moments in his family life are juxtaposed against some fearful violence in the world outside. At least, as in other Box novels, the violent forces almost always pay their due.
Box definitely does not suffer from series stagnation--I will be waiting eagerly for my next outing with Joe Pickett.
Summary of Blood Trail (A Joe Pickett Novel)
Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp-strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer and stop him before someone declares open season on humans.
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