Breaking Point (A Joe Pickett Novel) Mass Market Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's C. J. Box Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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Box has always been adept at giving Joe Pickett, his old-school Wyoming game warden, modern issues to confront. Here, Joe finds himself tracking Butch Roberson, the father of his younger daughter’s best friend, after Butch seemingly kills two armed EPA agents and heads for the hills. Armed EPA agents? You read that right. In this nightmarish scenario, the EPA carries guns, the Forest Service has a SWAT team, and an unhinged administrator can target a fugitive with a missile-carrying drone. “Hell had broken open, and hundreds of bureaucrats were gushing out,” laments Pickett, wondering whether he can stand to wear his badge anymore. Should “war” break out between the government and the people, he knows whose side he would be on. His outrage is understandable, but, still, this is a far cry from the thoughtful, balanced takes of previous Picketts. And, despite a fiery, thrilling ending, it’s not as seamlessly structured as usual, either. But, whether you watch the skies for black helicopters or not, you’ll still have a hard time putting this one down and turning out the light. --Keir Graff
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“An explosive thriller that careens from one unpredictable twist to another.” —South Florida Sun-Sentinel
“It’s the best installment yet in an already rich series. Grade: A.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“An exceptionally well-told story that will entertain, thrill and maybe even outrage its readers.”—USA Today
“Will raise the hair on your neck and chill you to the bone.”—Bookreporter.com
“Thrilling wilderness chases, chilling stories of the abuse of power, and Pickett’s indomitable frontier spirit power this explosive novel.”—Publishers Weekly
“Fans of this series will burn through the pages…Another must-read.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“Its basis in a real-life conflict makes Joe’s thirteenth case one of his most tendentious, but it’s Box who makes it one of his most exciting.”—Kirkus Reviews
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- Series: A Joe Pickett Novel (Book 13)
- Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Berkley; Reprint edition (March 4, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425264602
- ISBN-13: 978-0425264607
- Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 4.2 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Wyoming Fish and Game agent Joe Pickett is on a routine patrol, enjoying a nice day with his horse and his dog, when he meets up with Butch Roberson, a local building contractor whose daughter is a close friend of Joe's daughter Lucy. Butch seems uneasy, but only later does Joe learn that two EPA agents who had been sent to deliver an enforcement notice against Butch have been murdered. Butch is the prime suspect, and he is on the lam. As the last person to see Butch and also someone thoroughly acquainted with the local wilderness, Joe is assigned to help the heavy-handed and unpleasant federal authorities who step in to override the local sheriff to pursue Roberson. After the feds offer a reward for Roberson's capture, former sheriff Kyle McLanahan recruits gunman Jimmy Sollis and local Dave Farkus to capture Roberson, dead or alive. The extremely suspenseful chase through the Wyoming mountains ends in justice...of a sort. The ending was surprising and disturbing. The Joe Pickett series is known for raising difficult ethical issues that the characters have to face. In Breaking Point we see a credible dilemma of the sort to which there is no good solution. I was stunned and disturbed, and I was incredibly impressed by the author's creativity.
Wyoming native C. J. Box does an excellent job of painting a vivid sense of place for the reader, and I lingered several times over lovely descriptions of the wilderness, but his greatest skills are his ability to write sustained suspense and to create believable characters.
I picked up my first Joe Pickett book after hearing several people praise the character of Pickett, a man of strong family feelings and a sense of ethics that often puts him at odds with others, especially those in authority.
I have just completed reading the entire Joe Pickett series in order. So often, I've become aware of an author, read the latest and then gone back to read the series. This time, based on reviews, I decided I was going to like Box and I started with his first Pickett opus. I would recommend that approach.
This series is particularly well suited to chronological reading because in many ways it's like a soap opera, or a TV docudrama. Once you start it your curiosity about the main characters is strong enough to compel you to read the next installment. I'm not saying that the books can't stand alone. They can. But, they really are best read as an entire set. Try it.
Now, as to the writing... I often eschew books which Kindle readers say have grammatical errors or lapses in logic or overly florid writing style, etc. I can get interested in just about any book, but if I run across any consistent flaw in writing style, I simply can not continue. You can relax on that score with Box. I'm not saying that there were not occasional editing flaws, such as extra or missing words. I think virtually every Kindle book I've read has at least a few of those and the PIckett series is no exception, but they're few and far between and obviously not the result of poor writing, but of incomplete editing. I can live with that.
I also don't want to mislead that somehow I think Box's writing is at the highest level. There are moments of poetic observation and there are some nice author's tricks to keep your attention, but I would put him just below the top of the pack of mystery/adventure type authors and nowhere near the greats. But, very readable nevertheless.
His main characters grow on the reader.
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