8th in the series with Joe Pickett, Wyoming game warden, not a problem if you haven't read the others although Nate Romanowski might puzzle you. Joe is still on call for "special" jobs for Governor Rulon. This time he's called out to a scene where a hunter has been shot, gutted and strung up like an elk. It turns out this is not the first hunter who's been treated as a prey animal, and the Wyoming hunting season with all those dollars is in jeopardy. To make it worse, a famous anti-hunting activist is on the scene and Joe's purported supervisor, who's hated Joe from the beginning, is suddenly making nice. But the investigation goes pear-shaped as soon as an expert tracker is brought in. Joe convinces the governor to spring Nate Romanowski from prison and then it gets even more bizarre. There is a certain scene maybe 3/4 of the way through where the identity of the killer becomes obvious. Box writes a few scenes from the POV of the killer, which I didn't think were terribly convincing, but it is different than his usual. Entertaining and fast-paced as always, and I expect Joe to be in even more hot water than usual in the next book.
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