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Below Zero

C. J. Box

Editorial: Corvus

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Box's ninth novel to feature Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett begins   with a bombshell: could Pickett's foster daughter, April, who  apparently  died six years earlier in Winterkill, still be alive?"Tell  Sherry April called." A simple phone message that shakes Joe  Pickett's  oldest daughter Sheridan and the rest of the family to the  core. To  Joe, it doesn't seem even remotely possible that April could  have  survived the massacre described in Winterkill six years  before.  He was there, and he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts  to  believe there's a chance that April is still alive, and her  suspicions  are confirmed when the person sending texts to her cellphone  is able to  recall family incidents only April could know.Joe,  however,  remains wary of the messages. But when the texts start to refer  to "bad  things," and when Marybeth discovers they come from locations   throughout the West where vicious murders have taken place, alarm bells   go off. Desperate to discover if April is still alive and to save her   from possible danger, Joe, Sheridan, and Nate Romanowski take to the   road to connect the texts with the crimes.Meanwhile, a dying   Chicago mobster named Stenko and a much younger girl  cross the  country.  He's on a mission to reconcile with his extreme   environmentalist son  before he dies. His son is less interested in   reconciliation than in  getting his father to repent for the   environmental crimes he's  committed during his lifetime. He wants his   father to become not just  carbon neutral, but to reduce his carbon   footprint to below zero   - as  if he'd never even existed.As  the path of Stenko and his  companions starts to cross with Joe,  Sheridan, and Nate, the question is  raised: Is this young girl April or  are the Picketts the victims of a  cruel hoax?

Disponible desde: 01/11/2011.

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