#1 Bestselling Western Thriller Author C.J. Box Returns to SLCL

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Favorite Author Series and Left Bank Books are pleased to host master western thriller author C. J. Box for a discussion and signing of “Battle Mountain,” the latest installment in the hit series starring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

The event will take place on Friday, February 28, 7:00 p.m. at the Clark Family Branch, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131. Books will be available for purchase and signing from Left Bank Books.

St. Louis County Library fan-favorite C.J. Box returns with a new thriller in his #1 bestselling series starring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. 

In “Battle Mountain,” Joe’s friend and sometime partner, outlaw falconer Nate Romanowski is off the grid and out for revenge. 

The campaign of destruction that Axel Soledad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate and Joe left both men in tatters, especially Nate, who lost almost everything. Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow to prepare for vengeance.

When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Kany.

As Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones circle closer to their prey, Joe and Susan follow the nearly cold trail to Warm Springs. Little do Nate and Joe know that their separate journeys are about to converge . . . at Battle Mountain.

C. J. BOX is the author of 25 Joe Pickett novels, eight stand-alone novels and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and two Spur Awards. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He has been executive producer on television series based on his books, including ABC TV’s “Big Sky” and “Joe Pickett” on Paramount+.

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