

For the uninitiated, Joe Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming, a real ‘Dudley Do Right’ according to his friends and (by this point) many enemies. Long Range is the twentieth Joe Pickett novel. These days, as with Stephen King, there tend to be a couple of new books a year – and they form a firm staple of our annual reading calendar. Can it really be nine years since we enjoyed the year in which a CJ Box / Joe Pickett novel was released every month? We made our way through those initial books – Open Season, Savage Run, Winterkill, Trophy Hunt, Out of Range, In Plain Sight, Free Fire, Blood Trail, Below Zero and Nowhere to Run – at a gallop, and collectively they were enough to cement Joe Pickett and CJ Box’s other books (we’re talking Blue Heaven, The Highway, Back of Beyond etc) in our readerly hearts.
