Overview of the Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell Series.Should We Read the Joe Pickett Series in Order?.Series the Author Contributed To in Publication Order.Cody Hoyt / Cassie Dewell Series In Publication Order.(May 12)įorecast: With a 25-city author tour driving a big promotional push, this one should continue to build on the numbers established by the first two books in the series. Box needs to develop more believable characters to realize his potential as an outstanding new talent. But most of his characters tend to be either two-dimensional villains or saints, and in each book the life of a member of Pickett's family is threatened. Box's description of the harsh yet splendid Wyoming landscape is vivid and memorable, his handling of complex social issues evenhanded and unsentimental. When Pickett learns of a plan to raid the encampment, he resolves to warn the Sovereigns, especially since Jeannie has April there. Forest Service bureaucrats, including the psychotic Melinda Strickland, and two vicious FBI agents. Soon, the little town of Saddlestring is swarming with press, as well as U.S. Pickett suspects locals killed the combative Gardiner. Sheriff "Bud" Barnum suspects a band of misfits, the Sovereign Citizens, which is camping in the forest, among them Jeannie Keeley, the birth mother of the Picketts' foster daughter, April. During a horrendous blizzard, he finds the body of Lamar Gardiner, "the District Supervisor for the Twelve Sleep National Forest," pinned by arrows to a tree, near seven illegally shot elk.
As usual, Pickett, though fallible, is the voice of reason and honesty amid a cacophony of greed and evil. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett runs into trouble again in Box's third fast-paced novel (after Open SeasonĪnd Savage Run), which focuses on the conflict between parental custody and foster care, as well as the growth of "independent nation" cults.
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