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  • Cold Wind

  • A Joe Pickett Novel
  • By: C. J. Box
  • Narrated by: David Chandler
  • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,898 ratings)

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Cold Wind

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C. J. Box's newest best seller, Cold Wind, marks his 11th visit to the popular Joe Pickett series. When we are first introduced to the world of Cold Wind it seems to be this wide expanse of big Wyoming emptiness. The events and characters look to be products of small town thinking and petty local politics. Yet you quickly learn that there's much more going on here. Wind turbines are coming to dominate the landscape and the economy. Unlikely new players are amassing huge fortunes and influence. Where you have money and power in play, you've got just the elements you need for conflict, mystery, and murder. It's against this backdrop that Joe Pickett works as a ranger. Ostensibly his job involves counting wildlife and keeping an eye on the local hunters, yet his role also allows him unique leeway to act both as the law as well as outside the law.

David Chandler has now narrated 10 of the Joe Pickett books, so he's very familiar with the New West tone and feel for the series. He has a bit of challenge with the number of characters here, but Joe’s friend Nate stands out. Nate plays counterpoint to Joe they're two sides of the same coin. Where Joe is the thoughtful family man, Nate is the badass wild card unfettered by society and living by his own moral code. You see this particularly in Chandler's voicing of the characters. Where Joe is the everyman voice of reason, Nate is the low menacing whisper of raw emotion and animal drives.

In many ways Cold Wind is reminiscent of an old established genre of storytelling that's populated Western literature for generations. It used to be the promise of the gold rush, then conflicts over cattle, then it was the oil boom; now the next big thing shaping the Western provinces is wind power. With Cold Wind, C. J. Box helps continue this proud American tradition of individualism and justice. Cleo Creech

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When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for game warden Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in- law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do - especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin.

But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes... it's not going to be good.

He's game: solve another mystery with Joe Pickett.
©2011 C.J. Box (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC

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Solid storyline !

The books just keep on getting better and better… Joe Pickett knows how to get into and out of trouble.

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Excellent as usual

I love this authors writing. I like this narrator, he gets the different character voices just right. He doesn’t change entirely but enough so you get the difference. On to the next book! I’ve read many of these in paper form but it’s great haven’t the whole series here to fill in the gaps.

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Another good one by C. J. Box

Great story right to the end. Kept me captivated. Narration was outstanding as usual. The story had some information about wind turbines. It was very interesting.

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Go Joe

Joe Pickett does it once again. Another good story to the Joe Pickett series. Keep up the good work and stories.

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Suspenseful

I liked this book because C J Box is a suspenseful writer. He keeps you off guard. You think you know the answers but he keeps throwing curves to keep you off guard.

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Slow start. Builds slowly

I would like for the story to build faster, maybe with more detail and move quicker.

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This book kept me up at night! Joe's mother in law is accused of murdering her rich hubby and Nate is back and on his own mission. There are ancillary issues, like wind power, sleazy lawyers, Sheridan's move to college and local politics. Box has created multi-dimensional characters, complete with imperfections, who grow and change from book to book. I can't wait for book #12.

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Great story! One of my favorites so far.

these books just keep getting better and better! I really enjoy the series and great character development and twisting plots you'll enjoy this book. Can't wait until the next one.

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Another great book

Quite convoluted but kept you in edge throughout the book. Definitely worth taking a look!

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One of my favorite series.

Phenomenal writing, I really enjoy all of the the books in this series. The focus on Missy in this book is intesnse and really shows her charcter. Great performance and good reading!

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