Savage Run (A Joe Pickett Novel)

Excellent suspense novel.

Book number 2 of the Joe Picket series and and I am getting into it!! C. J. Box writes a really good story about the Wyoming outdoors. Very descriptive writing without getting boring delves you into the storyline. Makes you visualize the scenery in your mind as you read which is really hard for an author to do.Savage Run goes into local Indian folklore and intertwines nicely with the storyline. Joe Pickett is just about as honest and wanting to do the right thing as a Wyoming game warden. Kinda like a grown up Boy Scout only better!Lots of action and a few twists and turns that keep you turning the pages. Most of the characters from Mr. Box's first novel, Open Season, are in this book and once you start reading it's like visiting the old neighborhood as you already know the people and are comfortable and just settle back and enjoy the story.Spoiler alert ahead!! My reason for giving this a 4 star rating is how Stewie Woods crawled out of forest after being severely hurt in a blast. That was kind of hard to fathom but Savage Run is still well worth reading. The other characters in the book are strong and believable and fit right into the storyline.I will recommend this book to others especially those that love the outdoors!

I have enjoyed the saga of the Joe Pickett family for years now. They are a great read. Everyone of the books rates a five star. Box rates up there with the best authors. I have read 92 percent of all his books. So keep them coming.

A very intense story! Well written! I couldn't put it down! Highly recommend! Lots of plot twists! I wouldn't change a word!!

The author effectively used the Wyoming setting as an inspiration and a source for the novel. There are the usual elements for a modern western of love, hate, action, rugged nature, animal, and tough human spirits. The plot is logical and bizarre enough to be interesting.

Second book in the series was better written. Enjoying the saga.

CJ Box is my new favorite author! Not only does he bring the story to life, but he paints a perfect picture of his setting in the Wyoming mountains. Now I have to read everything he's written!

Spoilers below.I've read the first one and now this one. Pickett is a good character. He's not super macho or super competent: he's more like a regular decent, principled family guy always trying to do the right thing. His relationship with his wife is well done and she's more of a real character than typical of the genre. There are convenient fiction-kids who come and go as the plot requires, unlike real kids. The writing is good, not overly descriptive, not straining for effect, spare and moves right along. The county is absurd: the ratio of psychopaths to ordinary people is remarkable. The super wealthy a-hole ranchers, the poverty stricken trailer dwellers, the Sheriff and nearly all government bureaucrats are in cahoots. The Sheriff in particular is worse than useless. If you go into the mountains you will soon, invariably, be out of communications range and in danger and this is always an essential plot device. My takeaway is never, ever consider living in Wyoming. That may be part of the author's agenda.SpoilersHe walks a middle line between cartoonish environmentalists and cartoonish wealthy ranchers. Both the pro and the anti environmentalists get to make speeches which are pretty well integrated into the plot although one guy makes a long speech just standing there while knowing a psychopath sniper is after him: it ends as everybody but the character knows it's gonna end. Note to self: Don't stand in doorways making speeches when pursued by psychopath sniper. At that point the whole plot depends on not being able to communicate by radio or cell phone, just like in the last one.There are several kind of crazy plot turns here, but the worst one is Pickett hitting a guy he can't see, hiding in cover 200 yards away, by firing five blind shots with a high caliber handgun, one of which hits evil dude in the gut. Ok sure. Then the gut-shot guy gets on his horse, which had appeared from nowhere earlier, and rides back to his truck, then drives back to the rich a-hole rancher's house because he wants to die in a bed, I guess, which he does. Pickett lo and behold emerges from the wilds onto that same ranch. He manages to lose his gun again. Johnny Law and Mrs. Pickett arrive just in time for the ending, which involves a lot of irony along with an elaborate rig of remote controlled explosives. Joe survives to, I presume, again put his wife and children through hell while out of cell range.It's a good page turner and will pass the time: it doesn't hold up to close scrutiny but that's not why you bought it

Great series looking like I will read them all.Good mix of suspense, this book does have some graphic scenes(Stephen King- ish) which was a pleasant surprise.

Locker geschrieben mit genug Spannung, um die Bücher am Abend schwer aus der Hand zu legen. Nicht wirklich anspruchsvoll im Sinne von überraschend. Meist weiss man schon nach ein paar Seiten, wer wahrscheinlich der Mörder ist. Aufgrund des geringen Preises und der spannenden Vorschau schlage ich dennoch immer wieder zu und bin aktuell bei Band 6 :-)

This is the second book in the Joe Pickket series by the author and a good one which I will recommend to the thriller lovers.

Another good book to read will read the whole series of Joe Picket

Un livre de premier plan qui montre les dérives auxquelles se livrent à la fois le clan des ranchers et celui des environnementalistes, du moins les extrémistes des deux côtés. Joe Picket découvre que les morts "accidentelles" sont des meurtres exécutés de façon à noircir les victimes et les rendre moins crédibles.L'écriture est forte, le sujet fascinant, les personnages variés et fermement plantés dans la réalité. Et, comme toujours, la beauté naturelle des parcs du Wyoming, magistralement présentée.