Breaking Point (A Joe Pickett Novel) [Kindle Edition] Author: C. J. Box | Language: English | ISBN:
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The thrilling new Joe Pickett novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Critics called Force of Nature an“amazing” (Associated Press), “outstanding” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), “warp speed . . . showdown between good and evil” (The Denver Post). “This is the best Box I’ve ever read, and I’ve read them all” (Library Journal).
Breaking Point, however, takes Joe Pickett into uncharted territory. The question is: What will he do when he gets there?
It was always good to see Butch Roberson, Joe thought—a hardworking, upright local business owner whose daughter was friends with his own. Little did he know that when he talked to Butch that day in the forest, the man was about to disappear. He was heading into the mountains to scout elk, he said, but instead he was running. Two EPA employees had just been murdered, and all signs pointed to him as the killer.
As the manhunt organized itself, Joe heard more of the story—about the tract of land Butch and his wife had bought to build their retirement home on, until the EPA declared it a wetland. About the penalties they charged him when he balked, new ones piling up every day, until the family was torn apart . . . and finally, it seems, the man just cracked.
It was an awful story. But was it the whole story? The more Joe looks into it, the more he begins to wonder—and the more he finds himself in the middle of a war he never expected and never wanted. Powerful forces want Roberson not just caught but dead—and the same goes for anyone who stands in their way.
Every man reaches his breaking point. Joe Pickett may just have reached his.
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- File Size: 1222 KB
- Print Length: 384 pages
- Publisher: Putnam Adult; 1 edition (March 12, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008U45T7C
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,892 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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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