Sunday, April 3, 2011

Free Fire / C. J. Box / 352 pages

Wyoming game warden, Joe Pickett, "wants to do good, even when [he] should know better."  It's why his wife, Marybeth, loves him and why the new Democratic governor of the state has offered Joe his job back and asked him "unofficially to investigate murders in Yellowstone."  (Yellowstone is the world's first national park.  It is 2.2 million acres and has more than 10,000 thermal features, canyons, waterfalls, and wildlife.  It was founded in 1872.)  Joe again asks his friend, Nate Romanowksi, to help him.  Mystery man Nate believes that "falcons, like some people, need to do things.  They can't just exist."  Clay McCann was released even though he admitted to the murders.  He says "It's not like our laws are moral codes - they're just a set of rules dreamed up by politicians to keep themselves in power and placate their contributors...If our laws were honest and based on universal truth, I'd be on death row for six murders."

Another great Joe Pickett mystery.  Great information on Yellowstone!!

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