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Joe Pickett´s old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. When an elite team of special forces soldiers offer to wipe clean Nate´s criminal record in return for his help, Joe´s not sure they can be trusted.

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There´s no hiding off the grid.

Joe Pickett´s old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, lying low while the FBI search for him. But they´re not the only ones looking. Nate finds himself confronted by agents who need his help assessing a potential terror threat in Wyoming´s Red Desert - in return they´ll make Nate´s criminal record disappear. Nate knows they can´t be trusted - but with his liberty at stake, he has to comply... for now.

Meanwhile, Joe´s heading south, under orders from State Governor Rulon to investigate a rash of crimes and an uptick in secretive federal activity along Interstate 80...

As they pursue their quarries, both men will be drawn deep into the Red Desert, 9,000 square miles of bleak, punishing terrain, home to a secret that could take them both down.

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´I love Joe Pickett´ Michael Connelly.

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Box, C.J.
C.J. Box is the author of nineteen Joe Pickett novels, five stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, and has been a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box has also worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He lives outside Cheyenne with his family. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. cjbox.net @cjboxauthor

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