Did you ever feel like you were being watched? Is that not the most scary feeling? Well I can tell you that not only are some hunters being watched, but they are being hunted. That's right, hunted.
Imagine you go out think that you are going to bag that next big deer and you are the receiving end. We aren't just talking shot. We are talking everything that a hunter does to his prey. When a hunter goes out for a hunt, he is dedicated and focused on the kill. When he does kill his elk, deer, whatever it is he is hunting, it is in the best interest to gut and bleed the animal out. By doing this, they string the deer up in a tree as to have all the blood run out and to make it easier. Now imagine if you will, you are with your buddies hunting and in different locations, you hear a shot thinking that one of them just killed a deer. Time goes by and you don't hear from them. So you go out in search of them and find them gutted and hung from the tree in the same fashion that a hunter would his prey. Then fear runs through your veins in hopes you can make it out alive.
That is when Joe Pickett gets his call. He is still working on a need to be basis and hopes that he will one day be a game warden. In the mean time he goes on the call to find out the worst of his fears has come true. Now how in the world do you track a serial killer who has killed several hunters and leaves virtually no trail? Well all except a poker chip. Being the status of this case, the governor and several other big wigs get involved not to mention a hunting activist who thinks it is absolutely barbaric to hunt. They decide to bring in a master guide and tracker with his dogs. Not only does the investigation get off to a rocky start, shortly into the search for the killer, 3 people are killed.
I have never been so engrossed in one of C.J. Box's story lines until this book. I must say thus far it has been a book that I have not been able to put down.
I cannot wait to see what the story line has in store with the main tracker killed as well as two other individuals involved in the investigation.
.......to be continued.......
