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The disappeared / C.J. Box.
Wyoming's new governor isn't sure what to make of Joe Pickett, but he has a job for him that is extremely delicate. A prominent female British executive never came home from the high-end guest ranch she was visiting, and the British Embassy is pressing hard. Pickett knows that happens sometimes--these ranches are stocked with handsome young cowboys, and "ranch romances" aren't uncommon. But no sign of her months after she vanished? That suggests something else. At the same time, his friend Nate Romanowski has asked Joe to intervene with the feds on behalf of falconers who can no longer hunt with eagles even though their permits are in order. Who is blocking the falconers and why? The more he investigates both cases, the more someone wants him to go away. Is it because of the missing woman or because he's become Nate's advocate? Or are they somehow connected? The answers, when they come, will be even worse than he'd imagined.
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- ISBN: 9780399176623
- Physical Description: 390 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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| Chetwynd Public Library | FIC BOX (Text) | 35222000996396 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 February #2
Game warden Joe Pickett is on special assignment again. This time, Wyoming's new governor has sent him south, to the Upper North Platte River Valley, tasking him with finding a high-profile English guest who disappeared without a trace from a four-star dude ranch. Despite help from his daughter, Sheridan, now a horse wrangler at the ranch, and old friend Nate Romanowski, Joe doesn't like his odds of successâin fact, he soon wonders whether he's been set up to fail. As their investigation leads to a fish hatchery (where the lethal Nate creatively and hilariously expands his interrogation tactics), a wind farm, a cabin in the woods, and a sawmill with a so-called "wigwam" burner, the government-hating Nate pursues a conspiracy theory of his ownâwhich harkens back to the author'sCold Wind (2011) and addresses a hot-button issue of the modern West. The eighteenth installment of this hugely popular series delivers everything fans want: a compelling mystery, high-stakes action in a beautiful setting, and enjoyably humorous interaction between characters they've come to know and love. There's a reason we keep coming back for more. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Box, a number-one New York Times best-seller, has sold more than 10 million books in the U.S. to dateâhe's about to sell a lot more. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 March #1
A new governor demanding special favors means a new assignment and new problems for Wyoming Fish and Game Warden Joe Pickett. It's not Gov. Colter Allen's fault that high-profile British ad-agency CEO Kate Shelford-Longden disappeared somewhere between Silver Creek Ranch, the ultra-posh dude ranch where she'd just spent a week been pampered within an inch of her life, and the Denver airport several months ago. But his wife and other folks are leaning on him, so he leans on Joe (Vicious Circle, 2017, etc.) to drive the 300 miles to Saratoga in the depth of a January freeze and get the answers that have eluded Carbon County Sheriff Ron Neal and the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation. Bullied by the governor, Joe agrees to look into the case. Luckily, he has an in: His daughter, Sheridan, who's been working at Silver Creek as a horse wrangler, got fairly close to the missing woman and knows all the ins and outs of the place. The staff at Silver Creek has been vetted mo re closely than most vice presidential candidates, but several contractors with access to the ranch seem suspicious enough to make likely suspects. Before Joe can make any real progress, though, the case notes he's been given by Connor Hanlon, the governor's dislikable chief of staff, are stolen, and his old friend Nate Romanowski, the "outlaw falconer" he's been specifically ordered to keep away from, drops in to ask Joe a serious, albeit apparently unrelated, favor. The case turns out, rather disappointingly, to be two cases. But it's a treat to see Joe's daughter pulled into working with her father; there's an unexpected role for his reptilian mother-in-law, the imperishable Missy Vankueren; a false lead he follows will have readers whooping with laughter; and both cases are wound up in highly satisfactory ways. Best of all, the final pages find Box's hard-used hero both triumphantly successful and in deep trouble once again in perhaps the most finely balanced conclusion i n this rewarding series. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 October #2
Back after six top-five New York Times best sellers in a row, Wyoming game warden Joe Picket must find a high-profile female British executive who disappeared while visiting a fancy guest ranch.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
In Box's 18th series installment (after Vicious Circle), Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds himself once again working on special assignment for the governor. Newly elected, Colter Allen is a man with a not-so-sterling past, a short temper, and little patience, especially for Joe Pickett. The CEO of a British ad agency disappeared after leaving the Silver Creek Ranch, and Joe's task is to find her. Joe's eldest daughter, Sheridan, works at the ranch, and Pickett family friend Nate Romanowski is also in nearby Saratoga and needs Joe's help. The facets of this story are many: falconers seeking permits to hunt with eagles, mysterious goings-on at a local lumber mill, an exclusive guest ranch that caters to the one percent, a missing British citizen, state politics, a wind farm with thousands of turbines expanding its acreage, and Joe's mother-in-law, Missy VanKueran. Box neatly links all these disparate components, and his wrap-up will leave his many readers breathless. Verdict Another hit for storyteller extraordinaire Box, and series fans and aficionados of Craig Johnson's "Walt Longmire" mysteries will cheer.âPatricia Ann Owens, formerly with Illinois Eastern Community Coll., Mt. Carmel (c) Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2018 February #1
In bestseller Box's superlative 18th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett (after 2017's
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly.Vicious Circle ), the state's new governor, Colter Allen, orders Joe, who did many special investigations for the previous governor, to find out what happened to the CEO of a high-profile British advertising agency, Kate Shelford-Longden, who has gone missing after vacationing at the Silver Creek Ranch outside Saratoga. Given suspiciously few resources and very little time, Joe is happy to accept the help of both his 23-year-old daughter, Sheridan, who works as a wrangler at the ranch, and comrade Nate Romanowski, who predictably approaches the case from beyond the law's boundaries. Meanwhile, the lethal Gaylen Kessel, the head security agent for the wind energy company that has taken over the region, makes trouble. In the end, Sheridan and Nate must deal out rough justice to the malefactors, while the book's key environmental issue enhances the satisfying conclusion. Also welcome are Box's underrated touches of wry humor, generally overlooked as one of his strengths. Series fans and newcomers alike will be rewarded.Author tour. Agent: Ann Rittenberg, Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency. (Mar.)
