SummaryAward-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a
vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game
warden Joe Pickett.
It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different
kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When
the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly
believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a
camp in the mountains—strung up, gutted, and flayed, as
if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge and
a poker chip lie next to his body.
Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a
possibly psychotic killer on the loose Governor Rulon is
forced to end the hunting season early for the first time in
state history. Are the murders the work of a deranged
anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a
personal vendetta?
As always, Joe Pickett is the governor's go-to man, and he's
put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more
bodies and poker chips turn up.
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