Joe Pickett #7
Berkley
August 2008
On Sale: July 24, 2008
Featuring: Joe Pickett
352 pages ISBN: 0425221245 EAN: 9780425221242 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Joe Pickett investigates the mass murder of a group of
campers in a back-country corner of Yellowstone National
Park. But not only has the killer gleefully confessed, hes
gotten off free. The reason is an absolute shocker and
absolutely believable.
Joe Pickett, recently fired from his job as a Wyoming game
warden, is working on his father-in-law’s ranch when he
receives a visit from the governor. Governor Rulon – a
devious but down-home politico – has a special request, one
Joe knows he can’t refuse. For weeks, the headlines have
been abuzz with the story of Clay McCann, a lawyer who
slaughtered four campers in a far-off corner of Yellowstone.
After the murders, McCann immediately turned himself in at
the nearest ranger station. Seemed like a slam-dunk case for
law enforcement – except that the crimes were committed in a
thin sliver of land with zero residents and overlapping
jurisdiction, the so-called free-fire zone. McCann has taken
advantage of an obscure loophole in the law: neither the
state nor the federal government can try him for his crime.
The worst mass murderer in Wyoming history walks out of jail
a free man.
Governor Rulon, sensitive to the rising tide of public
outrage, wants his own investigation into the murders and
will reinstate Joe as a game warden if he’ll go to
Yellowstone “without portfolio” to investigate. Joe, happy
to get his badge back, even under these circumstances, agrees.
It quickly becomes clear to Joe that McCann is deeply
involved with some illegal activity taking place in the park
– something tremendously lucrative and unusually dangerous.
As Joe and his partner Nate Romanowski search for the key to
the murders, they discover that it may be hidden in the
rugged terrain of the park itself.
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