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Free Fire

#7 in series

by C. J. Box
David Chandler
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Best-selling author C. J. Box-an Anthony and Macavity Award winner-earned starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist for this exceptional mystery. Taking advantage of a legal loophole, a lawyer kills four people in Yellowstone National Park and walks away a free man. As the public outcry intensifies, the governor hires former game warden Joe Pickett to conduct a private investigation.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Joe Pickett

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 8, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781456101411
      • File size: 320978 KB
      • Duration: 11:08:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This installment in the Joe Pickett series is set in Yellowstone Park, where the murder of four young environmentalists has local law enforcement officials stymied. The perpetrator has confessed but can't be prosecuted because the murders occurred in a section of the park over which, according to federal law, no court has jurisdiction. When more murders follow, Joe discovers a connection to local competition for bio-mining rights. The flat though highly individualized voices David Chandler uses for the characters mesh well with the story, and the minor variations in tempo and volume capture the ambience of the Western setting. Chandler sustains the story's tension and suspense throughout with a nuanced performance. S.S.R. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      February 1, 2008
      This mystery weaves together captivating scenes of Yellowstone National Park with details of the gruesome killing of four people there and the subsequent investigation. Joe Pickett, an honest and astute former game warden, is rehired by the governor to look into the crime. Box conveys a great appreciation of the park and its environmental importance, making it the centerpiece of the drama while keeping an eye on the suspenseful developments of his story, which turns on a unique feature of the park: a "zone of death" inadvertently created by congressional mandate when the park was established. Since the zone is uninhabited, crimes committed in it are not prosecutable because a jury cannot be formed. The political and bureaucratic corruption Joe uncovers involves an assortment of interesting characters, including the governor of Wyoming. David Chandler modulates his voice with expert skill, creating vivid pictures of people and events. Strong language and sexual scenes are minimal and appropriate to the characterization. Recommended for adult collections.Bernard E. Morris, Modesto, CA

      Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 12, 2007
      When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pickett, fired in his last outing, In Plain Sight
      (2006), from the state's game and fish department, to investigate in Anthony-winner Box's absorbing seventh crime novel, his best yet. Helped by astute park ranger Judy Demming and his antisocial pal, falconer Nate Romanowski, Joe gradually connects the murders to competition for bio-mining rights in Yellowstone's hot springs. Joe's often harassed family is on the sidelines, except for a startling appearance by his long-estranged father. Box skillfully weaves ominous scientific phenomena and legal loopholes peculiar to Yellowstone into his story of corruption, greed and deception. The author vividly evokes Yellowstone's natural beauty, but the book's real power emanates from Pickett's (and Box's) passion for preserving the wilderness and stopping those who would cynically destroy it.

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