Blood Trail

A gripping read from C.J. Box, author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky. It´s elk season in the Rockies, but this year one hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the radio, Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains: strung up, gutted, skinned, and beheaded, 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 hunting season early for the first time in state history, outraging hunters and potentially crippling the state´s income from the loss of hunting licence revenue. But when the brutal murders eerily coincide with the arrival of radical antihunting activist Klamath Moore, Pickett knows the Governor´s ruling is the least of his worries. Are the murders the work of a deranged activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? As always, Joe Pickett is the governor´s goto man, and he´s put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies and poker chips turn up.