Nowhere to Run

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After successively reading two relatively long and dense literary novels with complicated plots, I felt the need for something simple and undemanding. I thought of C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series. This is actually the tenth book in that series. Hard to believe I've read that many; they all sort of elid......more

This begins as a nail-biting, harrowing tale. Joe Pickett is trapped in the mountains, at the mercy of a couple of seemingly superhuman, ruthless, violent men who have been terrorizing the region. He is injured. His horses have been slaughtered. He has no supplies and no way to contact anyone in "th......more

I am liking all of C.J. Box's books but this is one of my favorites. In addition to the non-stop action I liked how Box dove deeper into Joe and how he feels about who he is and what he does. The fact that he questions himself and his job is real and honest. The fact that he even questions himself a......more

In “Nowhere to Run” our favorite Game Warden, Joe Picket is finishing up his temporary assignment in the remote area of Baggs District, where the Governor sent him until the recent political heat wore off. It is his last week before returning home to his family and resuming his previous local area r......more