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The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden
Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.
Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town
where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden--especially one like Joe
who won't take bribes or look the other way--is far from popular. When
he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile
behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a
reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his
backyard, his woodpile to die in. Even after the "outfitter murders," as
they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two
more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the
easy explanation offered by the local police.
As Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the
outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an
endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his
woodpile. But if word of the existence of this endangered species gets
out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural
gas company, building an oil pipeline that would bring the company
billions of dollars across Wyoming, through the mountains and forests of
Twelve Sleep. The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter
murders, the endangered species and InterWest, the closer he comes to
losing everything he holds dear.
