Three-Inch Teeth
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4.1 • 57 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human—in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.
A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe’s daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property.
Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to methodically check off his list. The problem is, both Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett are on it.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This Joe Pickett mystery from thriller maestro C. J. Box is a one-more-chapter kind of read. As a game warden in Wyoming’s untamed wilderness, Joe’s seen grizzly attacks before, but never one so violent, nor one that hit so close to his own family. What Joe doesn’t know yet is that a violent criminal has been released from prison, and he’s got a checklist of intended victims tattooed on his hand—ending with Joe and his falconer friend Nate Romanowski. As always, Box delivers a satisfying mystery filled with shocking twists and fascinating local colour. (Like a pair of fringe conservationists who call themselves the Mama Bears.) This is a great place to start the Joe Pickett series—and best of all, you’ll have plenty of others to turn to after it’s over.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Box's pulse-pounding latest adventure for Wyoming game warden Pickett (after Storm Watch) showcases the series' strengths: high-octane action, intricate plotting, and well-drawn characters. Things kick off dramatically with Clay Hutmacher Jr. trout-fishing in a river and planning how he'll propose to Pickett's daughter, when he's fatally attacked by a grizzly bear. The discovery of Clay's remains prompts Pickett to activate Wyoming's Predator Attack Team to hunt down the bear before it claims more victims. Meanwhile, white supremacist Dallas Cates, who headed the WOODS (Whites Only One Day Soon) gang, is released from prison with plans to assassinate six targets—including Pickett—in revenge for killing members of his family and putting him behind bars. When he learns that Pickett is preoccupied with finding the bear that killed Clay, Cates moves his old nemesis to the top of his hit list. Box maintains expert suspense throughout, shrewdly exploiting the story's animal and human killers to set a series of diabolical traps for his hero. It's another high point in a series full of them.
