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Endangered

par C. J. Box

Séries: Joe Pickett (15)

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"New York Times-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more-Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway-alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors aren't sure if she'll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it-says she ran away from him, too-and there's evidence that points to another man. But Joe knows in his gut who's responsible. What he doesn't know is the kind of danger he's about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates's family is like none Joe has ever met before. Joe's going to find out the truth, even if it kills him. But this time, it just might"--… (plus d'informations)
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(2015) Joe's adopted daughter April is found badly beaten and he suspects the rodeo cowboy she has been seeing. Nate is ambushed by the Cates' family and his girlfrend Liv is kidnapped. A satisfying conclusion as the Cates clan suffers many calamities at the end. Nate escapes and him and Liv are reunited. Despite the violence, I really liked this installment.KIRKUS:Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's 15th case takes him through some of the darkest days of his checkered career.While Joe's surveying a field in which someone massacred a flock of endangered sage grouse, he gets a call that a young woman's been found in a ditch, badly beaten. Maybe it's not Joe's adopted daughter, April, who ran off with rodeo rider Dallas Cates shortly after her 18th birthday (Stone Cold, 2014). But Joe and his librarian wife, Marybeth, know it is, and of course they're right. Eldon and Brenda Cates insist that Dallas got much too badly banged up at a Houston rodeo to have lifted a hand against April, with whom he'd already split up. Although April, lying in a medically induced coma, is in no position to dispute their story, Joe's ready to kill Dallas himself¥until an anonymous tip identifies survivalist Tilden Cudmore as April's abductor. Certainly everything about Cudmore's behavior, especially when he's confronted by the law, indicates that he fits the bill. While Joe is still wondering which of the suspects is really guilty, his old pal Nate Romanowski, the outlaw falconer last seen giving evidence against murder-for-hire kingpin Wolfgang Templeton, is released from prison, made to sign away most of his civil rights into the bargain, and lured into a lethal ambush and left for dead. Who's responsible for his shooting? What have they done with his lover and business partner, Liv Brannan? And what hope does Joe have of solving such a range of felonies, especially those that hit closest to home?All the action and suspense of Box's long string of high-country adventures, with a solution that's considerably tighter and more satisfying than most of them. One of Joe's best.Pub Date: March 10, 2015ISBN: 978-0-399-16077-6Page Count: 384Publisher: PutnamReview Posted Online: Jan. 8, 2015Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2015
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
Someone gave me the book that preceded this one and because of the way that one ended I wanted to read this one, as the story was left hanging. This seems to be a good series the author tells a story well and the characters are well developed, but like James Lee Burke's Robichaux series, the main character seems to be getting a little old to be acting the way he does. Otherwise the adventure is a fun book to read. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
When we last saw the Pickett family, April had just ran away with a local cowboy with a checkered past, Nate was in federal custody after the Wolfgang Templeton debacle and Missy had absconded with the very unfortunate but yet not realizing it Mr. Templeton.

Now, a few months later, April reappears in the worst possible way - beaten almost to death and thrown into a ditch, surviving the night almost by a miracle. In the meantime, Nate strikes a deal with the government to serve as bait for his old co-worker (of a type) and is released under very strict conditions. Missy is still MIA to almost everyone's relief.

And these two events become the center of the novel - Joe is trying to find who assaulted and almost killed his daughter, Marybeth spends most of the book in the hospital, looking over April and Nate and his girlfriend end up having their own problems. 15 novels into the series, a reader knows that the two story lines will need to connect somewhere. And they eventually connect but it felt as a setup for the next novel than a part of this one - not having the Nate subplot would not have changed much of the main story (except at the very end - and that could have been handled differently).

C. J. Box has a tendency to leave some of his supporting characters almost cartoonishly cardboardy. Sometimes they appear in later novels, get more definition and a few installments later, they actually feel like real people. Throwaway characters which never reappear can occasionally feel more like a type than a person. It rarely bothers me because it does not really harm the action (yes, they would be better if they are well developed but...). But even for him, some of the characters here were not even full concepts, let alone characters.

The Cates family, the main antagonists of novel, are almost the antithesis of the Pickett family - a doting Mom (in a very different way), a Dad, 3 children (3 girls for Pickett, 3 boys for Cates), the middle child being the bad apple. As the novel progresses, you get a lot more of these parallels all the way to the final moments when mother's love and trust become the key to explaining what really happened and why. And while some of the Cateses have something of a personality, it is mostly seen as the anti-personality compared to the other family. Don't get me wrong - Brenda Cates can give you nightmares but the rest of the family? They are just types, they are there to serve as plot points. And then there is Dudley who is even more cartoonish than the usual way bureaucrats are depicted in the series.

Add a few side plots (including one connected to Joe's actual job of course), yet another truck being totaled by Joe (I will be curious to see what they will give him to drive this time), some breathtaking scenery and a few people getting shot and you have the novel.

With all this being said, the novel actually managed to surprise me at its end. Through most of the novel you are absolutely sure you know what happened to April but it is not until the very end when we finally get the confirmation - and it was not exactly what I expected it to be. Or anyone else in the novel. The whole construction of the novel shows how easy it is to let preconceptions and believes guide your understanding of events. Saying that is not even a spoiler because there are so many layers of lies and beliefs in the novel that by the time you get to the end, it feels like you really cannot trust anything you think you know. And despite everything that was not really working in the novel, that makes it worth reading, especially if you had been keeping up with the series.

A decent installment into the series and I will probably pick up the next one soon - as with most of the later novels, the end of this one sets the stage for the next one (although technically here the whole Nate subplot sets the stage for the next one from what I can see in the next book's description).

One thing that is starting to be a bit annoying with the series: I wish that the author will stop throwing stuff at April's head and getting her into trouble. While most of it makes sense considering her character and past, it starts to feel a bit like a case of "The girls that were born and raised in the family are the good ones and can never do anything really bad or stupid because Marybeth is such a wonderful mother but we need some family drama so let's mess up with April again". Hopefully we are done with all that. ( )
  AnnieMod | Oct 19, 2022 |
Many plots for the price of one...daughter assaulted, Nate gets out of jail, sage grouse assaulted. Joe Pickett, game warden, handles them all. Characters de rigueur for a Pickett novel, except for Joe's political appointee boss, who's not in the book. I really enjoyed this listen and couldn't put it down. Where's #16? ( )
  buffalogr | May 21, 2018 |
Awesome ( )
  sitting_duck | Mar 22, 2018 |
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"New York Times-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more-Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway-alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors aren't sure if she'll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it-says she ran away from him, too-and there's evidence that points to another man. But Joe knows in his gut who's responsible. What he doesn't know is the kind of danger he's about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates's family is like none Joe has ever met before. Joe's going to find out the truth, even if it kills him. But this time, it just might"--

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