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WINTERKILL
by C.J. Box
G. P.Putnam's Sons, May 2003
323 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0399150455


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C.J. Box has a way of catching the reader with his openings. In his second book, SAVAGE RUN, an environmentalist was killed by an exploding cow. That was funny. In WINTERKILL, the third book about Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, when a man shoots into a herd of elk, killing or maiming most of the herd, it is frightening, and when Joe later finds that the killer was his supervisor, who is himself murdered in an especially brutal manner, things start getting worse.

Joe isn''t quite the schlemiel he was when he ticketed the governor of the state for fishing without a license, or when he allowed the bad guy to get his gun (OPEN SEASON). He has developed into a stronger man whose family is very important and whose crusade is to protect the living creatures of Twelvesleep Wyoming from those who want to harm them.

And when a group of "survivalists" arrive in Twelvesleep, things start getting ugly. Especially when Joe discovers that Jeannie Keeley, the natural mother of the child they have been trying to adopt, April, has been seen in town. To top it all off, the feds send in a very nasty incompetent woman, who calls in another nasty incompetent federal agent, to clear up the mess. The feds and the sheriff ally themselves against Joe, and when another government agent is killed and Jeannie takes April up to the "survivalist" camp, things really get ugly.

This is a very dark and violent book. Don't let the lyrical passages about the falling snow, and the time spent at home with the children fool you. This is a country that is foreign to those of us who live in the cities where even the bad guys don't carry 3 or 4 guns and think that it is a normal way of life.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, April 2003

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