Off the Grid
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There's no hiding off the grid.
Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. But they're not the only ones looking. Nate finds himself confronted by agents who need his help assessing a potential terror threat in Wyoming's Red Desert – in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear. Nate knows they can't be trusted – but with his liberty at stake, he has to comply... for now.
Meanwhile, Joe's heading south, under orders from State Governor Rulon to investigate a rash of crimes and an uptick in secretive federal activity along Interstate 80...
As they pursue their quarries, both men will be drawn deep into the Red Desert, 9,000 square miles of bleak, punishing terrain, home to a secret that could take them both down.
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23 primary books24 released books#16 in Joe Pickett
Joe Pickett is a 24-book series with 23 released primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by C. J. Box.
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After fifteen books, Joe Pickett has seen just about every bad guy you can imagine, short of an international terrorist cell.
So, let's have Joe and Nate Romanowski try to take down an ISIS fracture cell.
That's the basis of OFF THE GRID.
CJ Box is a great writer. He's not flashy, and he tells a good story, but like so many writers who do action-based mysteries, there is a tendency to get overrun with machismo and stretching the fabric of believability to a near-breaking point. Box takes this book to that breaking point and just about breaks into the eye-rolling, throw-the-book-across-the-room climax, but it's still a readable, good fun outing from everyone's favorite Wyoming game warden.
I'll keep reading Box because he's so good at what he does. And given that the fifteenth book in the series, ENDANGERED, was one of his best, I'll cut him some slack on OFF THE GRID. It's far from his best work, but it gets the job done.
Sort of like Joe Pickett himself.
