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The past comes back to haunt game warden Joe Pickett and his family with devastating effect in this thrilling novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box. The plane circled in the dark. Joe Pickett could just make out down below a figure in the snow and timber, and then three other figures closing in. There was nothing he could do about it. And Joe knew that he might be their next target. The Cates family had always been a bad lot. Game warden Joe Pickett had been able to strike a fierce blow against them when the life of his daughter April had been endangered, but he''d always wondered if there''d be a day of reckoning. He''s not wondering any longer. Joe knows they''re coming after him and his family now. He has his friend Nate by his side, but will that be enough this time? All he can do is prepare...and wait for them to make the first move.

Here together in a convenient ebook bundle, the four thrilling mysteries in the Highway Quartet Collection from Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box: Back of Beyond Cody Hoyt, although a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his friend Hank Winters turns up dead in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like suicide, but Cody knows Hank better than that. As Cody digs deeper into the case, all roads lead to foul play. After years of bad behavior with his department, Cody in no position to be investigating a homicide. But he will stop at nothing to find out who murdered Hank. And why... The Highway When two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road to visit their friend, little do they know it will be the last time anyone might ever hear from them again. The girls—and their car—simply vanish. Convinced by his son and his former rookie partner, Cassie Dewell, former police investigator Cody Hoyt begins the drive to the girls'' last known location. As Cody makes his way to the stretch of highway where they went missing, Cassie discovers that Gracie and Danielle Sullivan aren''t the first girls who have disappeared in this area. This majestic landscape is the hunting ground for a killer. Can Cassie overcome her doubts and lack of experience and use her innate skill? Can Cody Hoyt battle his own demons and find this killer before another victim vanishes on the highway? Badlands Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard dreams of getting out of Grimstad and leading a better life. One day, while delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and takes a mysterious bundle from the scene. Suddenly he’s in possession of a lot of money—and packets of white powder—and Kyle can’t help but wonder whether his luck has changed...for better or for worse. When a gang war heats up, it’s up to Cassie Dewell to help restore law and order. As she is propelled on a collision course with a murderous enemy, she finds that the key to it all might come in the most unlikely form: a boy on a bike named Kyle. He seems to know something that Cassie does not about what lies beneath the surface of this small and troubled town... Paradise Valley For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King whose hunting grounds are the highways and truck stops where runaways and prostitutes are most likely to vanish. Cassie almost caught him...once. Now, she has set what she believes is the perfect trap. But the plan goes horribly wrong, and the blame falls on Cassie. Disgraced, she loses her job. At the same time, Kyle Westergaard, has disappeared and Kyle''s grandmother begs Cassie to find him. Cassie agrees—all the while hunting the truck driver. Kyle''s disappearance may have a more sinister meaning than anyone realizes. With no allies, no support, and only her own wits to rely on, Cassie must take down a killer who is as ruthless as he is cunning.

Investigator Cassie Dewell is on the trail of the Lizard King, in the series that inspired Big Sky. It''s the end of the road. For three years, Chief Investigator Cassie Dewell has been hunting the Lizard King. Twice she''s nearly had him and watched him slip through her fingers, but this time, the trap is set and she''s certain she''ll catch him. But when the plan fails, and three policemen die in the chaos, Cassie loses her job. But she won''t – she can''t – give up the hunt. So when two teenage boys go missing and it looks like the Lizard King is involved, Cassie takes to the road. A road from which, quite possibly, there is no return. A road that ends in Paradise Valley.

A riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. The ties that bind can burn you. Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out by the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, twisted family loyalty runs as deep as the ties to the land, and there''s always something more to the story. The Kleinsassers have ruled this part of Montana for decades, and the Iron Cross Ranch is their stronghold. They want to see Blake Kleinsasser, the black sheep of the family, put away forever for the assault. As Cassie attempts to uncover the truth, she must fight against a family whose roots are tangled and deadly—as well as the ghosts of her own past that threaten to bring her down. With The Bitterroots, master storyteller C. J. Box delivers another searing novel of loyalty, lies, and lethal retribution.

''One of the most talented thriller writers at work today.'' Ten stories from international bestseller C.J. Box, full of dark deeds and dangerous impulses. In ''Shots Fired'', one of four Joe Pickett stories, Joe''s investigation into a radio call threatens to become his last. In ''Pirates of Yellowstone'', two Eastern Europeans, strangers in a strange land, find our just how ruthless American tough guys can be. In ''Le Sauvage Noble'', a Lakota Indian takes a job at Disneyland Paris acting the ''noble savage'' until he meets a woman who shows him what savage really means. These gripping tales are proof, once again, of why Box is a force to be reckoned with.

C.J. Box is the award-winning author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky. Now for the first time you can enjoy a huge selection of C.J. Box''s acclaimed work in one volume with The Box Set. This boxset includes 22 Joe Pickett novels featuring Game Warden Joe as he takes on crimes and sinister goings-on in the dramatic landscape of Wyoming and beyond, and 6 novels in the Cassie Dewell series featuring private investigator Cassie, whose exploits are the origin of the TV show Big Sky. The omnibus also contains Shots Fired, a compilation of short stories featuring some familiar characters, and two gripping standalone thrillers, Three Weeks to Say Goodbye and the award-winning Blue Heaven. This truly is the best of Box: the best of contemporary crime and thriller fiction set in the modern-day American West. Reviews for C.J. Box ''Box is the king of contemporary crime fiction set in the West.'' Publishers Weekly ''Box remains square on target throughout.'' Booklist ''Box delivers the goods!'' Robert Crais