Actually, Box demonstrates what a great writer he is by connecting the dots and showing how either side of the extremist spectrum can be bad for the environment, while also showing that ironically both sides love the outdoors. This time around we meet up with some environmental terrorists who wind up sideways of some equally destructive right wing ranchers. Box makes home life interesting by crafting Joe’s missus as a strong willed and independent minded woman but centered on family and has his daughters as head strong as their momma. All on a shoestring budget with a small family to support. (Cracker Jack?) Box delivers his second Joe Pickett novel in this 2002 publication and follows up on his first with some TASTY environmental thriller action.įor those readers who don’t know yet about the coolest thing this side of the Pecos, Box’s protagonist Pickett is a Wyoming game warden – patrolling the vast wide open spaces and confronting heavily armed perpetrators and wild critters alike.
These are just so much fun and thought provoking too.Ĭ.J. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.īox is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie.
He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series.
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