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Award©-winning and national©-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. Below Zero begins with an unassuming phone message: ©"Tell Sherry April called.©" But Sherry© - Joe Pickett©'s oldest daughter, Sheridan© - and the Pickett family are shaken to the core. April, Pickett©'s foster daughter, was killed in a horrific murder and arson spree six years prior. To Joe, it doesn©'t seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre described in Winterkill. He was there. But Sherry starts to believe there©'s a chance that April is still alive; the girl on the other end of the phone is able to recall family incidents that only April could know.
About the Author
C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over twenty-two novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France) , the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award (twice) , the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and 2017 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Western. The novels have been translated into 27 languages. Open Season, Blue Heaven, Nowhere To Run, and The Highway have been optioned for film and television. Millions of copies of his novels have been sold in the U.S. alone.Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he owned an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. In 2008, Box was awarded the "BIG WYO" Award from the state tourism industry. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo and is currently serving on the Wyoming Tourism Board. He lives in Wyoming.
