Award-winning writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
It’s elk season in the Rockies, but this year a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains—strung up, gutted, and flayed, as if he were the elk he’d been pursuing. A spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body.
Ripples of horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic killer on the loose Governor Rulon is forced to end the hunting season early for the first time in state history. Are the murders the work of a deranged antihunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta?
As always, Joe Pickett is the governor’s go-to man, and he’s put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies and poker chips turn up.
Bold, fast-paced, and with a controversial hook—hunting versus antihunting activists—Blood Trail is proof that C. J. Box is an ever-rising talent.
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Product Details
Author:
C. J. Box
Hardcover:
320 pages
Publisher:
Putnam Adult
Publication Date:
May 20, 2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
0399154884
Package Length:
9.1 inches
Package Width:
6.1 inches
Package Height:
1.2 inches
Package Weight:
1.25 pounds
Average Customer Rating:
based on 26 reviews
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Came Quickly And Brand New For A Low Cost Dec 28, 2008 Once again, it is a new book and cost me very low, as I like the author. Got it for Christmas from my wife.
CJ Box Blood Trail disappointing Dec 27, 2008 Like most other reviews here I've read other CJ Box Joe Pickett novels. As a matter of fact I think I've read them all. Despite the rather obvious ax-grinding of CJ Box's opinions the setting, the character and the wildlife were worth it, the ax-grinding was in many ways realistic to the setting and characters.
But I didn't even finish this one. The plot seemed way over the top and quite sloppy.
If the one character was such a good tracker how could he know he wasn't tracking more than one man, particularly men who weren't professional guides or hunters?
Would any sane adult, no matter how big an anti-hunting liberal a** actually go into a school classroom and call hunters "swilling beer, farting, trying to keep his pants up because he's so fat, using high-tech weapons to kill Bambi and Thumper so he can cut their heads of and stick them on his wall...barbarians" talk about murdering the guy hunting hunters and then finish by asking a child "Did you like warm blood on your hands?" in response to questions raised by his previous comments.
It doesn't matter where you stand on hunting or the political spectrum you'd have to be a 15 year old crack addict to be that senseless. Well maybe from the 5 star reviews it does matter.
Seems like CJ Box has either become too lazy to write with any subtlety. Or maybe he's just quit asking questions and has become entirely dogmatic. Not sure but this book feels like a caricature.
This One You Will Not be Able To Put Down Dec 21, 2008 Joe Pickett is back again--this time tracking someone who is hunting hunters.
I usually am able to guess who is the guilty party--but this time I was completely fooled.
With plenty of action and suspense to keep the reader turning the pages, if you love a mystery with unexpected twists and turns, read Blood Trail.
Though part of a series, it isn't necessary to read the first ones in order to enjoy this one.
Marilyn Meredith
author of Kindred Spirits, a Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery.
Blood Trail lives up to CJ Box's list of great books Nov 30, 2008 This book was a real keep me up at night page turner. It is well worth purchasing, however, do not buy from Grassroots books because I did and Grassroots books sold me a library book from the Canton Free Library in Canton New York.
Miss Hit Oct 28, 2008 Here's a book that I actually thought would be spine tingling, a real thriller... the books starts out as so, but half way through I felt distracted from the story but the Killer's Poetic Justice... which is a break with how he sees things... though the idea of hearing how and what he thinks is cool... it was far too 'poem' like... this killers way of phrasing... I skipped through a few pages to get to the blood in blood trail... not great. I wouldn't read another one of his so called, 'THRILLERS.' I think some writers writes stories to meet deadlines or contracts... but I think they over-write which leads ot boring stories. Stephen King has fallen into this trap some of his latest books were a cry for help!
you're not missing much on Bloodtrail.
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based on 26 reviews
Came Quickly And Brand New For A Low Cost Dec 28, 2008
CJ Box Blood Trail disappointing Dec 27, 2008
Miss Hit Oct 28, 2008
