Tenth in the series; you could start here easily. Once again Box writes a real page-turner. It really starts out in high gear with Joe encountering murderous brothers who have him on the run in the wilderness, wounded and desperate. I can't fault the action. Box usually manages to show both sides of many controversies in the West - development, mining, hunting and so forth. I am usually willing to suspend disbelief when I'm in Joe Pickett's world, and I did zip righ through this book, but...it missed the mark for me. At the end Box has Nate and Joe feeling sorry for the murderers, because a crooked politician and the government did something bad. Well, no, I'm sorry - after what they did they don't get a pass just because they'd like to be left alone. So it left a bad taste. OTOH, Nate is still roaming free, and we like him...oh well. For those who cringe when animals are killed in books, Joe loses two horses in a gruesome fashion.
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