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A review by danubooks
Storm Watch by C.J. Box
4.0
A group of people unhappy with the direction the country is headed have plans to create change.
As March becomes April in Wyoming, a major snow storm is rolling in as Game Warden Joe Pickett heads out into the foothills of a large ranch to track a badly wounded elk. He finds the animal and puts it down as planned, but also discovers a dead body in a strange building nearby. With the storm almost upon him, Joe can’t haul the body out with him; instead, he documents the scene as best he can with his phone and heads out, but not before someone fires a couple of shots at him. When the local sheriff’s office heads out the following day only to report that there is no body there, Joe knows that this is going to get complicated. Before long, the governor is ordering him to keep quiet about what he saw, the ranch’s foreman won’t tell him for what the mysterious building is being used, and his friend Nate is approached by a fellow former Special Ops type who wants him to become part of a growing movement to restore the values of the West to the country. Add in a deceased Chinese professor, BitCoin mining and federal agents sniffing around, and Joe quickly finds that the repeated blizzards are the least of his problems.
Joe is a man who believes in the law and doing his job to the best of his ability, a bit of a Dudley Do-Right according to a friend. Here he finds himself surrounded by people who feel that they can do what they want regardless of what their job demands that they do. Others talk about bringing the country back to its basic values, but are not particularly concerned about doing so in a law-abiding way. Joe must deal with poachers, spies, and domestic extremists at the same time….and discover what if anything these different groups have in common.
This is a solid entry in an excellent series, and fans of the previous books will enjoy this as well. The action moves along quickly, the different threads weave together as the story reaches its climax, and Joe along with his friends and family is determined to get justice in the end. He may not wreck another truck in this outing, but he’ll wreak a little havoc nonetheless. If you haven’t read a previous PIckett novel, this one stands on its own (but I suspect you’ll want to read some others once you finish it).
As March becomes April in Wyoming, a major snow storm is rolling in as Game Warden Joe Pickett heads out into the foothills of a large ranch to track a badly wounded elk. He finds the animal and puts it down as planned, but also discovers a dead body in a strange building nearby. With the storm almost upon him, Joe can’t haul the body out with him; instead, he documents the scene as best he can with his phone and heads out, but not before someone fires a couple of shots at him. When the local sheriff’s office heads out the following day only to report that there is no body there, Joe knows that this is going to get complicated. Before long, the governor is ordering him to keep quiet about what he saw, the ranch’s foreman won’t tell him for what the mysterious building is being used, and his friend Nate is approached by a fellow former Special Ops type who wants him to become part of a growing movement to restore the values of the West to the country. Add in a deceased Chinese professor, BitCoin mining and federal agents sniffing around, and Joe quickly finds that the repeated blizzards are the least of his problems.
Joe is a man who believes in the law and doing his job to the best of his ability, a bit of a Dudley Do-Right according to a friend. Here he finds himself surrounded by people who feel that they can do what they want regardless of what their job demands that they do. Others talk about bringing the country back to its basic values, but are not particularly concerned about doing so in a law-abiding way. Joe must deal with poachers, spies, and domestic extremists at the same time….and discover what if anything these different groups have in common.
This is a solid entry in an excellent series, and fans of the previous books will enjoy this as well. The action moves along quickly, the different threads weave together as the story reaches its climax, and Joe along with his friends and family is determined to get justice in the end. He may not wreck another truck in this outing, but he’ll wreak a little havoc nonetheless. If you haven’t read a previous PIckett novel, this one stands on its own (but I suspect you’ll want to read some others once you finish it).