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Nowhere to Run

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Storm coming...

The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author is now available nationwide and garnering unprecedented reviews.

Four weeks on the extended New York Times Best Seller List...

Box’s series is the gold standard,” wrote Library Journal about Below Zero, but never has he written a novel as harrowing as Nowhere to Run.

Joe Pickett’s in his last week as the temporary game warden in the isolated town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the surrounding 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’s gone missing – an Olympic hopeful who’d been training in the region and then just…vanished. 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 all 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 might turn out to be.

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The Reviews Are In...

“I love Joe Pickett and with Nowhere to Run, he’s on top of his game. So is C.J. Box. This one is his best yet.”

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Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 9 DRAGONS

"This stellar novel combines harrowing adrenaline rushes with complex morality..."

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Game warden Joe Pickett has only a few days left on his remote patrol before he can return to his family.

PEOPLE (Four out of Four Stars)

"...[A] terrible, beautiful tale of courage and compassion and culpability..."

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Inspired by a real-life Wyoming game warden's encounter with sinister mountain-man twin brothers, Edgar-winner Box's outstanding 10th Joe Pickett novel (after Below Zero) takes Pickett into darker ter

Publishers Weekly *STARRED REVIEW*

"...a skillful writer...wily surprises...thoroughly entertaining."

5

You don't have to be a disgruntled tea-guzzler to figure out that there is a deep unrest in our nation today, manifested in a growing cadre of decent, hardworking Americans who are profoundly unsettle

Chicago Tribune

"gripping, suspenseful tale of endurance against incredible odds...one of Box's best"

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"Nowhere to Run," C.J. Box's 10th Joe Pickett novel, is a gripping, suspenseful tale of endurance against incredible odds.

Denver Post

"...Ranks with his best... [Readers] won't know what hit them."

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Joe Pickett, exiled to the “warden’s graveyard” in a remote district of southern Wyoming, has one week left before regaining his old job in Twelve Sleep County, where his family still lives.

Booklist *STARRED REVIEW*

"...intense...well-structured...a perfect choice..."

25

Heading into the Wyoming backcountry while responding to a hunting complaint, game warden Joe Pickett senses someone lurking in the woods.

Library Journal *STARRED REVIEW*

"... exhilarating landscapes, high adventure, thrilling suspense, surprising moral quandaries..."

25

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett’s last patrol before he returns to his family and his old posting in Twelve Sleep County leads to another round of tense high-country adventure.

Kirkus Reviews *STARRED REVIEW*

"...freezing jolts of recognition at just how real Box’s stories are...a standout story..."

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Wyoming author C.J. Box’s skill as a mystery writer earned international recognition last year when he won the Edgar Allen Poe Award from Mystery Writers of America.

Billings Gazette

"Once in a while I’ll pick up a book that leaves me slack-jawed in wonder by the time I put it down..."

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Once in a while I’ll pick up a book that leaves me slack-jawed in wonder by the time I put it down. NOWHERE TO RUN by C. J. Box has been one of those books for me.

Bookreporter.com

"...tremendous advance praise. Now I know why...what great writing is all about."

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Bestselling author CJ Box has often put his protagonist, game warden Joe Pickett, in rough territory.

Madison (MS) County Herald

"...as psychologically complex as it is nail-biting..."

35

C.J. Box is in top form with his riveting new Joe Pickett novel

The Daily Beast

"London has its Sherlock Homes...but Wyoming has Joe Pickett."

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London has its Sherlock Holmes, France has its Inspector Maigret, and Botswana has its Precious Ramotswe; but Wyoming has Joe Pickett.

NewWest.net

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Poll

Of the villains in the Joe Pickett books, which one would you least like to meet in a dark alley?
Charlie Tibbs (Savage Run)
20%
Melinda Strickland (Winterkill)
10%
J.W. Keeley (In Plain Sight)
34%
Stenko (Below Zero)
13%
Missy (all the books)
22%
Total votes: 174

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