Stone Cold / C. J. Box / 370 pages / 8 Maids-a-Milking December Challenge

Game warden Joe Pickett's friend Nate Romanoski has a mission.  He is to make the world a better place - by removing one Henry P. Scoggins III, the last direct heir of the Scoggins Pharmaceutical empire.  Unlike his forebears, her has used his fortune for his won corrupt financial gain and escaped a murder charge for which he was most assuredly guilty.  Nate's employer has instructed him to "Do some good."  Nate is determined to accomplish this at Scoggin's six million dollar log home on the Bighorn River in Montana.  Governor Rulon has requested that Joe Pickett visit this very ranch and act as eyes and ears for the FBI and Agent Coon, to determine if nefarious deeds are, in fact, afoot.  As always, C. J. Box has written a gripping edge-of-your-seat pageturner.  Can Nate possibly be the bad guy....?