SHOTS FIRED

From the New York Times-bestselling writer comes a thrilling short story collection of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well—and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there.

Across fourteen Joe Pickett novels and four stand-alone books, C.J. Box has been consistently hailed for his brilliant storytelling and his extraordinary skills at creating character, suspense, and a deep sense of place. All of those strengths can be found in the ten riveting stories—three of them written especially for this book and never before published—that make up SHOTS FIRED.

In “One-Car Bridge,” one of four Joe Pickett stories in the book, Pickett goes up against a “just plain mean” landowner with disastrous consequences, and in “Shots Fired,” Pickett’s investigation into the radio call of the title nearly ends up being the last thing he ever does. In “Pirates of Yellowstone,” two Eastern Europeans, strangers in a strange land, hear that American tough guys can be ruthless, but it’s not until they try strong-arming one that they discover the real truth of the statement. And in “Le Sauvage Noble,” the stranger is Jimmy Two Bulls, a Lakota who takes a job in the Wild West Show at Disneyland Paris and finds its perks to be pleasant—good wages, decent food, and French women who find his “noble savage” act to be pretty exotic—that is, until he meets Sophie. Then he finds out what “savage” really means. C.J. Box is the author of fourteen Joe Pickett novels, most recently Breaking Point, and four stand-alones, and has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38. He lives outside Cheyenne, Wyoming, with his family.