Off the Grid

Zusatztext Praise for Off the Grid “With this exceptional entry, Box solidifies his place at the upper end of the crime fiction pantheon.”— Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review) “Picking up a new C. J. Box thriller is like spending quality time with family you love and have missed...It’s a rare thriller series that has characters grow and change. An exciting reading experience for both loyal fans as well as newcomers.”—Associated Press “Filled with high suspense, formidable characters, and an action-packed ending more vivid than most movies. Off the Grid  never falters as Box again delivers an exceptional thriller.”— South Florida Sun-Sentinel “You can’t help turning the pages and holding your breath until you find out where this scary, all-too-plausible caravan is heading.”— Kirkus Reviews “A terrorist thriller with a uniquely western flair...This is a breakneck story that Pickett fans will want to read in one sitting.”— Booklist More Praise for the C. J. Box and the Joe Pickett novels   “One of today’s solid-gold, A-list, must-read writers.”—Lee Child   “Box is a master.”— The Denver Post “Box knows what readers expect and delivers it with a flourish.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer   “Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett strides in big boots over the ruggedly gorgeous landscape of C.J. Box's outdoor mysteries.”— The New York Times Book Review   “Riveting...[A] skillfully crafted page-turner.”— People   “Will keep you on the edge of your seat.”— The Philadelphia Enquirer Informationen zum Autor C. J. Box  is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of the Joe Pickett series, five stand-alone novels, and the story collection  Shots Fired.  He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38 and a French  Elle  magazine literary award. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He and his wife Laurie split their time between their home and ranch in Wyoming. Leseprobe Chapter One Nate Romanowski knew trouble was on the way when he saw the falcon’s wings suddenly flare in the distance.  Something beyond his eyesight was coming fast. It was cool and crisp in the desert and the light dawn breeze smelled of dust and the rotting carcasses of dead wild horses who had drunk at a poisoned spring. The rising sun bathed the eastern sky ochre and silhouetted the rock haystacks and hoodoos into a dark snaggle-toothed horizon.  It was the best time of day, he thought: the anticipatory moment before the morning light lifted the curtain on the terrain to reveal the reds, pinks, oranges and beiges of the striations in the bone-dry rock formations and revealed the rugged broken terrain.  The desert was made up of canyons, arroyos, and vast sheets of hard-packed clay that had been sculpted through history first by magma, then water, now wind. Nate had learned that in the morning the desert didn’t wake up.  Instead, it shut down.  Herds of pronghorns moved from the sparse grassy bottoms where they’d been grazing through the night to the high desert plateaus where they could be seen for miles – and they could be on the lookout for predators.  Herds of wild horses, with their cracked hooves and woolly jug-heads, trotted across openings headed for the shade of wind-formed rock oddities that looked in the right light like Doric columns that...

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Praise for Off the Grid

"With this exceptional entry, Box solidifies his place at the upper end of the crime fiction pantheon."-Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review)

"Picking up a new C. J. Box thriller is like spending quality time with family you love and have missed...It's a rare thriller series that has characters grow and change. An exciting reading experience for both loyal fans as well as newcomers."-Associated Press

"Filled with high suspense, formidable characters, and an action-packed ending more vivid than most movies. Off the Grid never falters as Box again delivers an exceptional thriller."-South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"You can't help turning the pages and holding your breath until you find out where this scary, all-too-plausible caravan is heading."-Kirkus Reviews

"A terrorist thriller with a uniquely western flair...This is a breakneck story that Pickett fans will want to read in one sitting."-Booklist

More Praise for the C. J. Box and the Joe Pickett novels

"One of today's solid-gold, A-list, must-read writers."-Lee Child

"Box is a master."-The Denver Post

"Box knows what readers expect and delivers it with a flourish."-Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett strides in big boots over the ruggedly gorgeous landscape of C.J. Box's outdoor mysteries."-The New York Times Book Review

"Riveting...[A] skillfully crafted page-turner."-People

"Will keep you on the edge of your seat."-The Philadelphia Enquirer

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: C. J. Box
• Editore: Penguin Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.03.2016, ritardato
• EAN: 9780399176609
• ISBN: 978-0-399-17660-9
• Pagine: 384
• Serie: Joe Pickett; A Joe Pickett Novel; Joe Pickett Novel; Joe Pickett; A Joe Pickett Novel; Joe Pickett Novel; Joe Pickett / A Joe Pickett Novel
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli