Every year I wait patiently for the new C. J. Box books to come out. When they do, I put them on the wait list at the library so I can read them as soon as possible. I have been a fan of Box for several years now and have read everything he has written including all of the exploits of the Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett as well as the Cassie Dewell novels. For the most part, I have enjoyed all of these although recently some of his novels have contained a little too much conservative politics. Battle Mountain was a real page-turner but it did include a rather heavy dose of political views.
This is the 25th novel in the Joe Pickett series. It picks up where the last novel, Three-Inch Teeth left off. Nate Romanowski, the ex-special operative and falconer is on the trail of Axel Soledad who ruthlessly killed Nate's wife. At the same time, Joe is recruited by the Wyoming Governor asking for help in finding his son-in-law who seems to have disappeared in the Wyoming Sierra Madre near Battle Mountain where he was working with an elk outfitter. While Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones are on the trail of Soledad, Joe is also in the same area looking for the Governor's son-in-law who it turns out had already met up with the very violent Soledad and his group of recruitments who are planning an attack on a group of high ranking military and political personages called the Centurians who are gathering at a remote ranch in Wyoming near Battle Mountain. So will Nate and Geronimo be able to stop Soledad and get justice?
I enjoyed this one overall. It was full of action but was mostly a story about Nate with Joe playing somewhat of a secondary role. As I said, it did have some definite political points of view including a very negative view of the military commanders and the FBI. I would recommend this one but I do wish that Box would stay within the bounds of his earlier novels and leave the politics out of his stories.
This is the 25th novel in the Joe Pickett series. It picks up where the last novel, Three-Inch Teeth left off. Nate Romanowski, the ex-special operative and falconer is on the trail of Axel Soledad who ruthlessly killed Nate's wife. At the same time, Joe is recruited by the Wyoming Governor asking for help in finding his son-in-law who seems to have disappeared in the Wyoming Sierra Madre near Battle Mountain where he was working with an elk outfitter. While Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones are on the trail of Soledad, Joe is also in the same area looking for the Governor's son-in-law who it turns out had already met up with the very violent Soledad and his group of recruitments who are planning an attack on a group of high ranking military and political personages called the Centurians who are gathering at a remote ranch in Wyoming near Battle Mountain. So will Nate and Geronimo be able to stop Soledad and get justice?
I enjoyed this one overall. It was full of action but was mostly a story about Nate with Joe playing somewhat of a secondary role. As I said, it did have some definite political points of view including a very negative view of the military commanders and the FBI. I would recommend this one but I do wish that Box would stay within the bounds of his earlier novels and leave the politics out of his stories.
