Back of Beyond
โ Scribed by C. J. Box
- Book ID
- 107839398
- Publisher
- Minotaur Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312365745
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Review
Between work and money concerns, did your big summer holiday plans somehow end in a sad little staycation? Let C.J. Box take you on an audio tour of Yellowstone National Park murder, mystery and mountains included... Narrator Holter Graham conveys the demons, rage and parental love inside Cody. Box, a best-selling mystery writer and Wyoming native, crafts a taut tale, but its his details about the untamed flora and fauna two-legged as well as four that inhabit the wildness out West that hooks you. USA Today
PRAISE FOR C.J. BOX:
Skilled pacing and well developed suspense in what might be called Juno with a body count. People on Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Box builds suspense so brilliantly that Blue Heaven could serve as a textbook of how to do it. Booklist (starred review) on Blue Heaven
Box. . . understands the West and Westerners like no other writer . . . Three Weeks to Say Goodbye ignites a parents worst nightmares and asks a harrowing question: How far would you go to keep your child? It features Boxs usual deft plotting and compelling characters. Rocky Mountain News on Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Box alternates violence with surprising tenderness in a suspenseful tour de force. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Blue Heaven
My favorite kind of thrillerone with heart. Boston Globe on Blue Heaven
A page-turning, suspense-ratcheting success. Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Blue Heaven
Heart-shredding. . . when the suspense lets up enough to allow emotion to sneak in, Box gets it just right. Dallas Morning News on Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Product Description
The Edgar Awardwinning and New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone.
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man whos fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friends death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behavior with his department, hes in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Codys determined to find his killer.
When clues found at the scene link the murderer to an outfitter leading tourists on a multi-day wilderness horseback trip into the remote corners of Yellowstone National Parka pack trip that includes his son JustinCody is desperate to get on their trail and stop the killer before the group heads into the wild. Among the tourists is fourteen-year-old Gracie Sullivan, an awkward but intelligent loner who begins to suspect that someone in their party is dangerous.
In a fatal cat and mouse game, where it becomes apparent the murderer is somehow aware of Codys every move, Cody treks into the wilderness to stop a killer hell bent on ruining the only thing in his life he cares about.
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### Review โBetween work and money concerns, did your big summer holiday plans somehow end in a sad little staycation? Let C.J. Box take you on an audio tour of Yellowstone National Park โ murder, mystery and mountains includedโฆ Narrator Holter Graham conveys the demons, rage and parental love insi
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