Off the Grid

After fifteen books, Joe Pickett has seen just about every bad guy you can imagine, short of an international terrorist cell.

So, let's have Joe and Nate Romanowski try to take down an ISIS fracture cell.

That's the basis of OFF THE GRID.

CJ Box is a great writer. He's not flashy, and he tells a good story, but like so many writers who do action-based mysteries, there is a tendency to get overrun with machismo and stretching the fabric of believability to a near-breaking point. Box takes this book to that breaking point and just about breaks into the eye-rolling, throw-the-book-across-the-room climax, but it's still a readable, good fun outing from everyone's favorite Wyoming game warden.

I'll keep reading Box because he's so good at what he does. And given that the fifteenth book in the series, ENDANGERED, was one of his best, I'll cut him some slack on OFF THE GRID. It's far from his best work, but it gets the job done.

Sort of like Joe Pickett himself.