Showing posts with label Joe Pickett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Pickett. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2020
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Long Range by C.J. Box
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Long Range by C.J. Box: Reviewed by Kevin Tipple Welcome back guest reviewer Kevin Tipple! His blog, Kevin's Corner , is an award-winning source of reviews ...
Sunday, April 07, 2013
Review: "Breaking Point" by C. J. Box
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett knew local resident Butch
Roberson. At least he thought he did. Joe Pickett knew something was off with
him when he encountered Butch Roberson on the Big Stream Ranch in the Bighorn
Mountains. The owner of Meadowlark Construction in nearby Saddlestring had a
large backpack--far larger than it should have been-- and a rifle. He claimed
he was out scouting elk, but Joe figures Butch was responsible for cutting the
nearby barbed wire fence. After Butch commits to taking care of the fence
problem, Joe watched as the man heads deeper into the woods out of sight. He had
no reason to stop him and will soon wish he had.
It is only when he gets back to his department
issued truck and hears the chatter over the radio that Joe Pickett knows he is
about to be in trouble again. Two armed agents of the EPA are missing and
presumed dead. Butch is the number one suspect based on the fact the agents
were coming to serve papers on him regarding violations of EPA regulations on
the track of land that was to hold the family dream home. As federal resources
are mobilized to catch the fugitive in ways he never thought possible by his
own government, Joe is forced to assist with the manhunt.
Politics has been an increasing theme in this series and is especially prevalent here. Using the real life case of Mike and Chantelle Sackett of Nordman, Idaho as a back drop to events in this book as well as inspiration for the fictional story, author C. J. Box brings to light how far federal overreach can go in this day of armed EPA agents and elite EPA swat teams. Those who believe this sort of thing can’t happen would do well to do some research on the matter.
The ramifications, in reality as in fiction, are
many and worth considering. Breaking Point: A Joe Pickett novel is
a compelling mystery that blends fact with fiction and illustrates how things
can easily spiral out of control thanks to all too powerful government
bureaucrats. One needs to remember this is a work of fiction though one wonders
just how much longer it will be fiction only.
Breaking
Point: A Joe Pickett Novel
C.
J. Box
G.
P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin Group USA)
March
2013
ISBN#978-0-399-16075-2
370
Pages
$26.95
Material Supplied by the good folks of the Plano,
Texas Public Library System.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2013
Monday, June 04, 2012
Review: "Force of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel" by C. J. Box
All Nate Romanowski ever wanted was to be left alone
with his secrets and his guilt. He dropped out of society, went off the grid,
and vanished into the wilderness. He knew at some point there could be a
reckoning. In the last month his good friend, Large Merle, died just after
giving him the warning – “The Five.
They’ve deployed.”
Now the battle has begun and has come in an
unexpected form. Lucky to survive, Nate can’t make any more mistakes. Not only
does he have to convince those he loves, such as Game Warden Joe Pickett and
his family, to run for their own safety he also has to take the battle to the
enemy. The same enemy who trained him all those years ago.
While billed as “A Joe Picket novel” this book is
primarily a Nat Romanowski book. Long standing questions regarding his
background and behavior are finally answered in detail. The reasons given are
complex, compelling, and completely true to character.
Because so much of the book is geared toward Nate
Romanowski, Joe Pickett and his family become secondary characters in the work.
A couple of recent ongoing storylines continue in this novel but are not
developed further. What little readers
see of Joe Pickett and his family is mainly geared towards Joe and Nate’s
friendship and trust and repercussions of that.
Force
of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel builds off of events
in Cold
Wind and does so very well.
However, it is not necessary to have read that book before you read this
one though it clearly would be best. Potential readers who are unfamiliar with the
series should note that this is one of those series where characters age and
evolve as life happens to them. Nothing is static here and hasn’t been since it
began long ago in Open Season.
Force
of Nature: A Joe Pickett Novel
C.
J. Box
G.P.
Putnam’s Sons (Penguin Group USA)
2012
ISBN#
978-0-399-15826-1
Hardback
392
Pages
$25.95
Material supplied by the good folks
of the Plano Texas Public Library System. Again this year the summer reading
challenge for adults and kids is now underway. For more information go to
Kevin R. Tipple ©2012
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