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C.J. BoxJoe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden, and his 15th case takes him through some of the darkest days of his checkered career. While Joe's surveying a field in which someone massacred a flock of endangered sage grouse, he gets a call that a young woman's been found in a ditch, badly beaten. Maybe it's not Joe's adopted daughter,
Endangered by C.J. BoxApril, who ran off with rodeo rider Dallas Cates shortly after her 18th birthday (STONE COLD, 2014). But Joe and his librarian wife, Marybeth, know it is, and of course they're right. Welcome to ENDANGERED, Bestselling author C.J. Box brings us, as the starred Kirkus review reports, "All the action and suspense of Box's long string of high-country adventures, with a solution that's considerably tighter and more satisfying than most of them. One of Joe's best!"

C.J. Box novels have been national bestsellers and have been translated into 12 languages. He's the winner of the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 Award, the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and an Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. Open Season was a New York Times Notable Book and three of the novels have been Booksense 76 picks.

He has 16 Joe Pickett novels, two Cody Hoyt's, and two standalone novels, including BLUE HEAVEN, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel of 2008.

C.J. Box - one of the best!