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  • Nowhere to Run

  • A Joe Pickett Novel
  • By: C. J. Box
  • Narrated by: David Chandler
  • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,304 ratings)

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Nowhere to Run

By: C. J. Box
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Publisher's summary

Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day.

Joe doesn't mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned. Because what awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with, like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and too deadly. When he'd first saddled up, he'd thought of this as his last patrol. What he hadn't known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be.

He's game: solve another mystery with Joe Pickett.
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Critic reviews

"Box inexorably builds Joe's harrowing personal quest into a complex meditation on human greed and government corruption. A lone black wolf, possibly Box's symbol for the wilderness within and without the human soul, tracks Joe throughout this terrible, beautiful tale of courage and compassion and culpability." ( Publishers Weekly)
" Nowhere to Run, the tenth in the series, ranks with his best books....Readers should take note of their surroundings before opening this book: once they start reading, they won’t know what hit them." ( Booklist)

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enjoyable rural mystery thriller

This is part of the Joe Picket series, following the game warden in Wyoming. The start of this was edge-of-your-seat intensity, as Joe fights for his life to escape two crazy, rural brothers. Much of the rest of the novel focuses on who are those brothers, and why are they causing trouble. Is there a connection to a jogger who had disappeared in that area of the mountains? This part was less engaging but I still liked it. I enjoyed this novel mostly because I really like the Joe Picket character. He is a decent, believable character who does what he loves in spite of the tiny wages it pays for he and his wife to raise their girls. I like the rural setting as well. This is a rare time I listened to a second in a series, and will probably try another in the series at some point.

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A great ride

Each one of these books in this Joe Pickett series gets better and better. CJ Box, has an incredible talent on growing each character Book after book. My only complaint is I wish he give us more in the endings. But I just love this series.

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Still interesting

Never know what Joe will do next, only know it will be the right thing for the good and Joe's family

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Best one yet!

I have list to all previous Joe Picket books and the ending to this one was amazing!

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Best Pickett Yet!

Best Pickett Yet! This was a simple Joe vs. the bad guy(s) book. Wasn't sure how he was gonna get out of this one.

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Another great story

once again a roller coaster ride with the game warden , another fantastic story from Box

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I liked this book

I like CJ box. I don’t like the graphic animal killings, but I am a fan and I will continue to read his books. I think this was one of the best.

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Best one yet

I’ve read most of Joe Pickett series
This was the best so far
David Chandler IS Joe Pickett

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Good story about things not always being what they appear to be.

In a previous book April, their foster daughter was a first grader and died in a fire. But she’s back in this story as a rebellious teen. Other than that I enjoy Box’s stories.

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A right-wing, wild-West Charles Dickens

Wonderful writer, great series, but this is the first in Box's game warden sagas in which the writer's right-wing politics popped me out his story. His agenda is always there, but the delivery is so good it doesn't matter to me, and I'm comfortably to the left of most of the Democratic Party. That missing runner? She surfaces to say she's been to Europe and hated to see the universal health care they practice, as it represents an intolerable loss of personal freedom. Ah yes, if you've been denied health insurance or can't afford it, free to get cancer and lose your house, your savings, your ability to feed your children. Box so obviously sympathizes with this point of view. Let's be free to have our lives run by insurance companies. The rich get richer and the middle-class disappears! Drink the Tea Party Kool-Aid! U.S.A.!!!!!

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