STORM WATCH by C.J. Box

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Snowbound secrets, shifter wars, family lies, and epic battles — September delivers it all.

STORM WATCH
C.J. Box

Reviewed by Audrey Lawrence
Posted February 28, 2023

Joe gets permission to go on land managed by Clay Hutmacher to trail the injured elk deep into the snow-covered hills. After much trudging through the heavy snow, Joe eventually finds the wounded elk and puts it out of its misery. But close to where the elk falls, he discovers a new SUV, parked in the snow.

Joe identifies the dead person from the wallet that he took as Zhang Wei, a Professor at the University of Wyoming. Joe talks to Sheriff Scott Tibbs who will investigate the crime scene. What was a Chinese professor doing there?

STORM WATCH is the 23rd book in the Joe Pickett series by best-selling and award-winning western author C.J. Box. Box definitely knows how to best express his home territory both in its wild and breathtaking beauty as well as with its fierce and powerful snowstorms. Having worked and lived in Wyoming, Box also knows the people who live there, and his characters are very realistic in actions and attitudes.

STORM WATCH certainly contains all the events ongoing in the United States right now. It is almost like reading the newspaper or watching TV News, but with an expanded and enthralling mystery format. STORM WATCH covers Chinese influence, illegal FBI operations, Critical Race Theory, Bitcoin mining, Keystone pipeline cancellation, CCP Spying, oil, coal, timber, gun-owning, truck-loving patriots, and especially CCP-influenced politicians! All current events (except Chinese balloons) are melded into this suspenseful and captivating story!

SUMMARY

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.

When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extremists, and Governor Colter Allen.

Nate Romanowski is rebuilding his falconry company—and financing this through crypto mining with the assistance of Geronimo Jones. He’s then approached by a shadowy group of local militant activists that is gaining in power and influence, and demanding that Wyoming join other western states and secede from the union—by force, if necessary. They ask Nate to throw in with them, but he’s wary. Should he trust them, or is he being set up?

As a storm of peril gathers around them, Joe and Nate confront it in different ways—and maybe, for the first time, on opposite sides.