![]() A spectacular chase through a treacherous, isolated canyon with a secret escape route is well paced and riveting. When Pickett's wife, Marybeth, who grew up with Woods, receives mysterious phone calls from "Stewie," Pickett starts his own investigation. Then a proenvironment congressman, a writer, a lawyer and an animal-rights activist all die under questionable circumstances. The sheriff thinks it was an accident, but Pickett is unsure. ![]() First, a powerful explosion blows up "infamous environmental activist" Stewie Woods and his new wife while they're sabotaging logging in the forest near Saddlestring, Pickett's headquarters. A pair of well-drawn, unconventional hit men, one a conscienceless killer, are murdering environmentalists. Wyoming Game Warden Joe Picket is still fallible, his strong sense of duty, honor and justice again naïvely running afoul of the greedy villains bent on misusing the exquisite, vividly described landscape. (2001), along with a little humor and a more fluid plot line. Box's second novel offers more graceful writing than his overhyped debut, Open Season ![]()
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