Blood Trail

By: C. J. Box

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Critically acclaimed, award-winning author C. J. Box's Joe Pickett mysteries are a mainstay on the best seller lists.

Former game warden Pickett is now a special agent reporting directly to the governor. With someone targeting elk hunters, Pickett must head off a potentially deadly showdown when a flamboyant anti-hunting activist rolls in to town.

©2008 C. J. Box (P)2008 Recorded Books

Glad this wasn't a movie

Where does Blood Trail rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This book was very intense. It made me shutter more than once. I am glad this wasn't something I was watching. Very disturbing to think of someone skinning a person like a deer.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I love the Governor. He knows who will get the job done and make the Governor look clean. So typical it is completely believable.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I hated that Robey was killed. Gee I really liked that guy and he helped be Joe's voice of reason. Gee now Joe has to rely on his conscience.

Best one yet - I am totally hooked on this series.

This was great. Joe is a hot mess and Nate is at his finest. But in the end, justice for all.

loved it. had trouble stopping it.

It was excellent. Did not want to stop listening when I had to move on.

great read!

Loved it! All the components relating to wonderfully described thoughts and emotions of the main characters as we know them by now. Never been to Wyoming, but feel as if I have. So love the main characters. True to their form!

THRILLING!!!

My 8th book to listen to in the Joe Pickett series and the just keep getting better and better. The suspense will keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for more.

Blood Trail follow the chips

I emjoy the books by CJ BOX. The series like most takes bits and pieces from the books.

Interesting story with action packed finish

This book was great. It's another one of those thrillers were Joe box seems to get in trouble and then out of trouble .This one however has a lot of twists and turns in the story. Of course all of the normal characters show up in this book. The author ends it in a way that makes you anxious to get the next one to see the fallout.

Always a good read

What did you love best about Blood Trail?

Another good Joe Picket novel.

Have you listened to any of the narrator’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Have listened to them all and they make good travel stories

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Not really.

Best Book Yet

Once again C J Box has pinned another wonderfully crafted story of Joe Picket, my favorite one yet. I love how he weaved previous characters into his stories. This one keeps you guessing.

Joe and Nate come out on top again.

This series is becoming one of my favorites. Both Mr. Box and Mr. Chandler are gifted artists, and we see them in their prime. I, too, hope that they go on doing this for a very long time.
Blood Trail is a little gory. If you are squeamish, you might get upset by several of the episodes. I won't be too specific. The bad guys are vicious, particularly the self-aggrandizing rabble rouser who gets his jollies by intimidating and humiliating classes of high school kids. The truly awful bad guy, who speaks in his own voice in his chapters, is actually killing hunters and treating them as if they were animal carcasses. We just love to hate bad guys like this, and Box has a remarkable ability to create some of the worst. Joe is again working surreptitiously for Governor Rulon, who will deny any involvement in the investigative work that he has Joe do for him. These assignments have Joe leapfrogging over Randy Pope, who is the director of the department of Fish and Game. He, of course, is infuriated by this situation; plus, we find out near the end of the book that Pope has another important reason to be terrifically upset and frightened. So he takes out his rage on Joe. Once again Nate proves to be the ideal partner for Joe. Nate does things that Joe is way too straight-laced to even think about doing. These two guys are perfectly complementary to each other. The fact that Sheridan has become a junior falconer, with Nate's tutelage, serves to complicate the relationship between the men further. And, just to tantalize us a little more, Marybeth has a twinkle in her eye for Nate. Oh my my my.
A reader who says that he or she can predict the ending of this book is a true seer of the future, IMHO. There is no way I could ever have guessed who is stalking the hunters. Ever.
Having grown up a city boy, I have never been a hunter. However, Mr. Box is so articulate in his description of the philosophy of hunting that I almost (almost) find myself leaning toward their point of view. I do know a hunter, who tells me that if I were sitting in a duck blind in the very early morning, and a bunch of ducks (bevy? school? flock?) flew overhead, I would pull the trigger. I think he is right about that.
Blood Trail is one of the best books in the series, if you are not put off by the infrequent but detailed gore. I recommend it to you highly.