Water from the melting snow dropped like strings of glass beads from the eaves of the house and melted holes in the snow on the ground. One evening, as Pickett arrives home, "The wind had stopped, the sky had cleared, and the sun swelled bright and warm in the western sky. He writes lyrically of its mountains and forests, the herds of elk that move among them and the snowstorms that turn the world white as his story unfolds. Box is a native of Wyoming, an outdoorsman and onetime journalist, and his greatest strength is his obvious love of his state and its natural beauty. This operation endangers April, whose mother has seized her and taken her to the camp, and at the novel's climax Pickett must risk his life to try to save his foster daughter.īox's first two novels won awards and enthusiastic reviews, and this one showcases his strengths as well as a glaring problem.
Forest Service, summons a sinister FBI sniper named Dick Munker and organizes a Waco-style assault on the camp. Melinda Strickland, a publicity-hungry official of the U.S.
The Sovereign Citizens, as they call themselves, claim to want only to be left alone, but they are soon blamed for the deaths of two federal government employees. One of them is Jeannie Keeley, the birth mother of the Picketts' 9-year-old, April, the child they took in three years earlier when Jeannie deserted her.
They include survivors of Waco, Ruby Ridge and the Montana Freemen standoff. One day, just before Christmas, a scruffy band of survivalists sets up camp in a nearby national forest. The Pickett family - Joe, wife Marybeth and three young daughters - lives in the town of Saddlestring. Box's third novel about Joe Pickett, a state game warden in Wyoming, Pickett is caught in the middle of an ugly confrontation between trigger-happy federal officials and defiant survivalists.
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