(2010) Another very good Joe Pickett saga as he tracks down a missing Olympic track star that decided to go missing on purpose to escape her abusive father. First third of the book was hard to put down; page-turner.KIRKUS REVIEWWyoming 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.Something is wrong in the Sierra Madre. Two years after Olympic track hopeful Diane Shober disappeared while she was training in the high altitude, locals like fisherman Dave Farkus still whisper about the place. Now someone has butchered an elk¥maybe a Wendigo, a spirit who's supposed to stick to the Canadian side of the border. When he goes to investigate, Joe runs afoul of the Grim brothers. Ticketed for fishing without a license, Caleb Grimmengruber warns Joe to drop the matter and ride off. But Joe's insistence on doing his job has bloody consequences that leave Joe, ?outgunned, outnumbered, and outmanned,? limping back to civilization. Discredited once again by law officers who improbably dismiss his story when they can't find the Grims, Joe resigns himself to riding out his enforced leave in his home. But forces conspire to send him and his outlaw buddy Nate Romanowski back into the Sierra Madre to look for Diane, and inevitably for the twins who bested him the first time around, this time to complete a mission that Nate calls ?the worst thing we've ever done.?After an uncharacteristically weak outing (Below Zero, 2009), it's great to see the usual Box strengthsÂ¥exhilarating landscapes, high adventure, thrilling suspense, surprising moral quandariesÂ¥done to a turn.Pub Date: April 6th, 2010ISBN: 978-0-399-15645-8Page count: 368ppPublisher: PutnamReview Posted Online: Dec. 22nd, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15th, 2010

Nowhere to Run is a suspenseful book from beginning to end. Somehow Joe Pickett, a game warden, finds himself in deadly situations. He is steadfast in his pursuit of people who do not have game licenses to fish or hunt in the mountains of Wyoming. Four stars were awarded to this book. ( )

It's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real-and all too deadly.

The Joe Pickett novels are good for a break from massive fantasy series for me. They are short, easy to read & the mysteries are rarely very demanding.
There is usually some issue as a background and it does make my eyes roll over peculiar American beliefs at times. But that's what reading gives you - a perspective on someone else's opinion - even if you think it's bananas.
This was one of the better novels although as usual the mystery is quite slight. ( )

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