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Trophy Hunt (A Joe Pickett Novel) Hardcover – June 17, 2004

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Shaken by the brutal killing of a wild moose, game warden Joe Pickett becomes increasingly alarmed when a herd of cattle and then two people are murdered by the same perpetrator. By the author of Open Season. 35,000 first printing.

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June 17, 2004
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6.34 x 1.16 x 9.34 inches
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0399152008
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978-0399152009
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Box's riveting fourth Joe Pickett adventure (after 2003's Winterkill) opens on a disturbing note, with the Wyoming game warden's chance discovery of the oddly mutilated body of a moose near his favorite fishing hole. When several mangled cows and two grisly human corpses are added to the macabre menagerie, Joe reluctantly joins a task force to investigate. Bud Barnum, the corrupt sheriff of Twelve Sleep County, attributes the mutilations to birds or a notorious grizzly bear from Joe's jurisdiction, but Joe isn't convinced. Enter paranormal expert Cleve Garrett, who zealously follows mutilation and alien sightings in his recreational vehicle laboratory. Despite ridicule from the task force, Joe interviews Garrett, who supplies little fresh information but gives off creepy vibes. The clues that the quietly heroic Joe gathers from many disparate witnesses, including his own young daughters and a mentally incapacitated fisherman, may point to the otherworldly, but readers will be well satisfied with the all-too-earthly solution to the bizarre crimes. With its credible and sensitively drawn characters, loads of interesting tidbits about the natural world and timely plot, this skillfully crafted page-turner should have wide appeal.
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Box, whose superb Joe Pickett series has nailed some great western issues (ecoterrorism, endangered species, survivalists), here draws a bead on one out in left field: cattle mutilations. When the Wyoming game warden finds a mysteriously mangled moose, he is unnerved. When cows and even humans turn up the same, he finds himself a reluctant member of a special task force. County residents think aliens are responsible and start wearing aluminum-foil hats and finding crop circles in their backyards; Pickett calls the theory "woo-woo crap." This has all the elements that made the first three Picketts so pleasurable: Pickett himself, a bad shot but a good man; a strong supporting cast, especially his family; an inventive plot; and Box's own well-reasoned grasp of the issues. If this one works a hair less well, it may be because of the woo-woo crap itself. Although there's a believable motive behind some of it, there's also a touch of the supernatural that doesn't quite fit. Still, there's nothing wrong with being merely excellent instead of state-of-the-art once in a while. Keir Graff
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Publisher : Putnam Adult (June 17, 2004)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0399152008
ISBN-13 : 978-0399152009
Reading age : 18 years and up
Item Weight : 1 pounds
Dimensions : 6.34 x 1.16 x 9.34 inches

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D. Moore

I love this series!

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2019

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I am loving ALL the Joe Pickett books! I love that C.J. Box has developed such an honest, honorable, and all around GOOD guy in Joe Pickett. All of the characters are so well developed. Joe, Marybeth, Sheridan, and Nate are so perfectly flawed and real yet so full of integrity and character.
The Wyoming landscape with all of the conflicting factions battling over the land and the resources is fascinating. It certainly explains the very independent breed of people who live there. People who very much resent a Joe Pickett type. Joe takes his job and responsibilities very seriously and can't let go if he feels something is amiss. He's not arrogant, but he stands on his principals and doesn't hesitate to say what he believes.
In this book some really weird things are taking place, and Joe is assigned to a joint task force to solve the mysterious crimes. Personal agendas prevent the task force from making much headway, so Joe steps up his own part of the investigation with his loyal friend Nate Romanowski assisting. And ends up in a lot of trouble again.

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A CJ Box Fan

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2016

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I have purchased and read all of the Joe Pickett books by C.J. Box and thoroughly enjoyed all...I suggest that anyone whose interested in the books, that they read them in order. Joe is first a family man and will do anything to protect his family; the stories involve murder incidents that he gets involved as a game warden in Wyoming; I love the rustic, scenic atmosphere that he deals with, et al...kind of a straight arrow who sometimes "wings it", but wins out in the end! I recommend the books to anyone interested in a good story, outdoor settings, et al

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David C. Bleiler

Interesting

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2018

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Very nice work, first believable book I've read that involved the animal mutations. Excellent story as usual although a little mixed up and difficult to fallow. Liked the story, the ending was apt and in keeping with the mystical theme running through the story.
A couple of points that detracted from the overall excellence of the novel; in my Kindle version, one entire page was missing, just blank. On page 192, I think, hearing, feeling, sensing better in the forests if "walking slowly and stopping often", true but then he spoiled it by specifying 100 yards as an appropriate distance! Figured it must have been an oversight as any still hunter would tell you. Ten FEET would be the proper distance normally, if not shorter given the ground being covered.
Again I highly recommend this book to any lover of the outdoors, reading it gives one the sense of being there. I appreciate it, being just shy of 76 years young, I don't get out in the mountains like I used to do. Keep them coming.

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Joe Pickett Wins Again!

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2019

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This is only the fourth book in the series, and posibly I enjoyed it just a tad less than the others. It's still about four stars for me, though, and I already put the next on on my Kindle. This outing deals with horrifying mutilations of cattle and later, people. Joe does his thing, investigating even though he is treated badly by the Sheriff and some others. He is bullied, really, and I always feel so bad for him. But I love what his great wife, Marybeth, tells him: “You’re better than tough, Joe. You’re good. I’ll stick with good.” Just how I feel, too! I also love Joe's relationship with his children, especially the oldest, Sheridan. This is a very well written series, and the characters are so real, we feel we know them. Many readers didn't care for this outing because there's some question of paranormal involvement, but I think that, too, is realistic in today's world, even in Wyoming. Each book is complete and can stand on its own - never a cliffhanger - and I absolutely love that. When I sit down with a Joe Pickett story, I know there will be an ending with the plot ends tied up. Thak you, C.J. Box!

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Well Written

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2019

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I'm becoming a real CJ Box fan. Like his other books, this one is well written. I liked the characters, Joe, Marybeth, his daughters, and he has included another - Nate Romanowski. Nate is very mysterious character and he adds some spice to the story. He carries a huge revolver (.454 Casul) and trains/lives with falcons. He apparently has some involvement with the US Department of Defense, but we aren't sure if it is true of what - mysterious. He is there to assist Joe Pickett in difficult situations (which he has in this and the previous book). This book is mysterious. There is a supernatural quality to it (and since I believe in the supernatural, I'm drawn to that, although I really don't believe in aliens). But, the real problem is more real, and Joe with Nate's help figures it out. These are well written books and fun to read. I'm now reading the next one.

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Patricia M

THE STARS!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2018

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A new author to binge read!,
A mystery, with enough suspense and drama (some provided by pre-teen girls) for anyone.
As a Wyoming girl, I love the accurate depiction of people, and places, like the world of the antelope. And the men who are more like rough stock than stock brokers, the big of left over wild west.
This one is a bit more mystical, but that's okay. I hope the CBM people read it and think. There are more things in this universe than any of us understand.

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Peter T. Brown

Trophy Hunt is hard to put down, but a little less satisfactory than the first three in the series.

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2020

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I love the setting in Wyoming since I'm familiar with it, and Joe and Marybeth Pickett are a great model couple. However I found the mysteries about the paranormal, murders, mutilations and weird family relationships a little hard to believe let alone to "enjoy" . I'm going to read #5 and keep going since many reviews of future books are more convincing. I hope Joe sticks more with Game Warden tales or even family adventures with his wonderful family rather than getting into more "Woo Woo" stuff in future books.

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Kathy Jensen

Another intriguing investigation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2018

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Not quite as good as the first three in the Joe Pickett series, largely because some things were left unexplained - indeed, an element of supernatural crept in which, to me, doesn't quite fit with what I've read up until now. Nevertheless, it was another intriguing investigation for Game Warden Joe. It was also interesting to learn a bit about the development of methane gas below old coal deposits and the impact of mineral extraction on the environment.

David P

Good, if a little odd

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2015

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I am working my way through the Joe Pickett series having only discovered them recently. This is another belter, but not quite as good as the previous ones for me.

No real spoilers here, but if you don't want any hints about the story whatsoever, you'd better stop now.

I did think when I read the first book that, for a while at least, there was a bit of a Dean Koontz feel about it (the strange animals in the woodpile, were they going to turn out to be ghosts, or aliens, or something else?). Well that feeling is back in this book, and much stronger. It is definitely slightly weird. And for me, it felt a bit rushed towards the end, as though the author had conjured up various plot twists along the way (too many!) bringing in so many characters (too many!) who in the end seemed superfluous, without having a real conclusion figured out for all of them, and then at the end couldn't think of how to wind them all up. I ended up a bit bemused over who had actually killed who, who (if anyone) had killed the animals, what the strange smell and feeling was all about, what that flaming bear was up to, why people appear to be having premonitions in their dreams, why was anyone killed in the first place - all a bit disjointed, and - weird. And again I was left with a slight feeling that Joe hadn't so much actually done anything to help the plot along a lot of the time as just happened to be around at the time to observe what took place. Still enjoyed it though, I still like Joe and his family. A pity the chance for a big showdown with Barnum seems to have been neutralised.

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Dr Warren K Bowman

Watch the skies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2012

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Trophy Hunt is 4th in the Joe Pickett series involving our murder solving game warden sleuth from Wyoming. For me, it's the weakest so far.

Although, like the first 3 it's a very easy read - Joe is an honest and engaging fella - it contains too many loose ends for me. One or two would keep me thinking, but there are so many undeveloped and completed strands that I think there should be a part 2.

This novel begins with cattle mutilations. Whodunnit? Well the townsfolk think it could be aliens, turns out this kind of thing has happened before. Then people are dispatched the same way. The mystery develops with Joe representing Game and Fish on the 'Murder & Mutilation' task-force. Together with his buddy Nate Romanowski, Joe fights his own fight while being obstructed along the way by old nemesis Sheriff Barnum.

I suppose we do learn something new about Joe in this novel: he doesn't like the idea of the paranormal. He constantly waves his hands dismissively when any suggestion of alien or otherworldly involvement is suggested. We also learn something about Mrs Pickett - she is not the stereotypical stay at home, cookie baking Mom. She has her own ambition and this is delightfully woven through the story.

Anyway, only 3* this time for me. I enjoyed the read, but felt there were too many unanswered elements.

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Donny Rock

Wildlife in Wyoming!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2021

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The fourth Joe Pickett adventure concerns mysterious deaths of moose, cattle and human. All the while a maverick bear is on the loose. There is a great sense of the wilderness in this. The interpersonal relationships between Joe and his family, between Joe and his co-security forces are very well done. And the plot is excellent.

Tom Stronach

Trophy Hunt - Joe Pickett by c.j. Box

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2012

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Trophy Hunt by C.J. Box is the fourth book in the 'Joe Pickett' series of books by the same author. I came to Mr Box late, and I am still playing catch up this book having been written and published around 2004.

If you have not read any 'Joe Picket' novels by this author I can highly recommend them to you...

Joe Pickett is a married father who is a US Game Warden in Wyoming, living on the Bighorn Road 8 miles from the town of Saddlestring with the Twelve Sleep River running through it....

As a series it has a set of characters running through it like a soap opera, Joe and his wife Marybeth. Their two girls, Sheridan and Lucy, (there was a third, who was an adopted daughter who died in a previous novel ) Sheriff Barnum, Joe's nemesis and his deputy Kyle McLanahan, Missy Vankueren, Joe's thrice married mother-in-law and on her way to No 4, Agent Portenson of the FBI posted to the wilderness of Wyoming and hating Joe for that, and finally, Nate Romanowski an ex special forces recluse.

These charachters make up the main cast of the first four novels and you will love most and despise others.

Picket is an unusual Game Warden in that instead of dealing with hunters and licenses in and out of season he keeps getting embroiled in major crimes and death, government conspiracies and tales of aliens. Mr Box is an excellent story teller in these books, he paints a picture of wide open country in one scene and then boxes you in a tree covered canyon in another. You can visualise the wide open sky's and the peacefulness of the country as described and then he throws in a dead animal or two followed by a body or two and once again Joe Picket is getting under the skin of the 28 year service of the Sheriff as he starts to investigate the murders as well as the dead animals.

While doing this we have the usual assortment of family problems with Marybeth the wife, who, as a stay at home wife has suddenly started a bookkeeping service for local businesses and Joe is coming home to empty fridges and non prepared meals, and wonders if it is all worth it.

The girls are getting older and the dynamics between mother and daughters and sisters is changing, one is nearly a teenager in this book and the other is still under 10 and all of this interaction is played out in a sharply written narrative that gets you hooked in and turning the pages.

These books are gentle reading in places and gruesome in other parts. Joe is teaching his daughters to fish on a day off when they come across a dead moose, a dead animal is nothing new to him or his girls by the nature of their lives. But you have the gentle family scene of a father with his daughters fishing and then you have a dead moose, but the moose has been surgically butchered and parts of it are missing. it appears to have been dead for a while, but strangely no other animals or birds have been feeding on the carcase so in a few short lines we have moved from a picturesque family fishing trip to a gruesome find with a conundrum, and that's what Box is good at. It doesn't sound as if it should work, this close interaction of black versus white but it does and makes for compelling reading. After the moose is found, the next find is some cattle, again they have been killed and surgically butchered and then it is moved up a gear when two bodies are also found apparently killed in the same manner as the animals, with no tracks around the animals to suggest what or who the killer or killers might be.

Twists and turns abound, a red herring or two is thrown into the mix and all this is used to good effect to keep you engaged and intrigued and turning page after page. The thing is having read the previous novels and seen a young daughter killed off you begin to realise that Box isn't afraid to take chances and kill off and hurt central characters in these books and this makes you continually wonder if Joe Picket and his family will survive to the end of each novel

Well worth checking out and a 5 out of 5 page turner

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