title: Savage Run (A Joe Pickett Novel)
author:  C. J. Box 
description: Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box's <i>Savage Run</i>. Joe is called to the scene when an exploding cow kills a famous ecoterrorist, Stewie Woods, and his bride of three days, who were peacefully spiking trees. A visit to the cow's pugnacious owner leaves Joe defensive, angry, and curious: Why doesn't the rancher ask any questions about the bizarre accident that happened on his land? Then Joe's wife, Marybeth, begins receiving phone calls from her high-school boyfriend-the peculiarly healthy-sounding Stewie Woods. Stewie may or may not be alive, but his old pal Hayden Powell and other environmental activists are all turning up deceased in strange circumstances. As the body count climbs, Joe tries to sort out the bad guys, the good guys, and the truly dead guys in this sometimes funny, sometimes angry sequel to Box's award-winning first novel, <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/042518546X/${0}">Open Season</a></i>. Box depicts the spare beauty and cussed individualism of the intermountain West with the sure hand of a seasoned writer. <i>--Barrie Trinkle</i>
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  # [BY C.J. BOX](007.html#a7)
  
  
  THE JOE PICKETT NOVELS
  
  
  Open Season
  
  
  Savage Run
  
  
  Winterkill
  
  
  Trophy Hunt
  
  
  Out of Range
  
  
  In Plain Sight
  
  
  Free Fire
  
  
  Blood Trail
  
  
  Below Zero
  
  
  Nowhere to Run
  
  
  Cold Wind
  
  
  Force of Nature
  
  
  Breaking Point
  
  
  Stone Cold
  
  
  Endangered
  
  
  Off the Grid
  
  
  Vicious Circle
  
  
  The Disappeared
  
  
  Wolf Pack
  
  
  THE STAND-ALONE NOVELS
  
  
  Blue Heaven
  
  
  Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
  
  
  Back of Beyond
  
  
  SHORT FICTION
  
  
  Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country
  
  
  THE CASSIE DEWELL NOVELS
  
  
  The Highway
  
  
  Badlands
  
  
  Paradise Valley
  
  
  The Bitterroots
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  First published in the UK by Head of Zeus in 2019
  
  
  Published by arrangement with Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s
  Publishing Group
  
  
  Copyright © C.J. Box, 2019
  
  
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