Another good outing from Box and his Joe Pickett series. This time, Joe gets involved with the EPA and a manhunt for a supposed killer of two EPA agents. The agents had been sent to serve a compliance order on a local contractor who was set to build his retirement home but had received an order from the EPA to cease construction because the house was on protected wetlands. But where was the water in these supposed wetlands? The agents end up shot to death and the contractor, Butch Roberson, is on the run. The EPA sends out a task force to bring him in and Joe is ordered to guide them because he was the last to see Butch. There are a lot of unknowns in this venture. Why does the EPA regional chief seem to have a motive for getting Butch and will go so far as to try to kill him using a drone missile?! Did Butch really kill the agents? A lot of action in this one as Joe tries to get to Butch before he is killed by the EPA or former sheriff McLanahan. This includes fighting through a forest fire and another venture into Savage Run, the foreboding canyon from an earlier novel. There is also an unexpected twist at the end of the novel. Another high recommendation.
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