The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe's best friend, Nate Romanowski - just as he's adjusting to the arrival of his first child - falls under suspicion for the crime. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers - and the shooter. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. One survivor of the grizzly's rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. The shooting isn’t Joe’s case, but he throws himself into it when an anonymous caller fingers Nate as the triggerman.Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder - a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance - in the riveting new novel from number one New York Times best-selling author C. The slug narrowly misses the judge, but his wife is not so lucky. Next, a skilled marksman fires a rifle shot through a local judge’s house from nearly a mile away. The first sign of it comes when a retired FBI agent who’d been trying to hang something on Nate for years gleefully warns him that a Mexican drug cartel has put a hit out on him. Fortunately, neither Joe nor Nate is inclined to stay clear of trouble for long. Of course, domestic bliss doesn’t a crime story make. Meanwhile, Joe’s rambunctious pal Nate Romanowski, no longer living off the grid, is running a legitimate business and has settled down with a wife and a new baby. Box introduced us to Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett in “Open Season.” Now, in “Long Range,” the 20th book of this fine hard-boiled crime series, the passage of time has made Joe and his librarian wife Marybeth empty nesters.
This cover image released by Putnam shows "Long Range" by C.J.
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