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It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever - or whoever - attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the sight, Joe starts to investigate what he hopes in an isolated incident." "Days later, after the discovery of a small herd of mutilated cattle, Joe realizes this something much more terrifying than he could have imagined. Local authorities are quick to label the attacks the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe knows otherwise. The cuts on the moose and the cattle were too clean, too precise, to have been made by jagged teeth. Are the animals only practice for a killer about to move on to another, more challenging prey?" Soon afterward, Joe's worst fears are confirmed. The bodies of two men are found within hours of each other, in separate locations, their wounds eerily similar to those found on the moose and cattle. There's a vicious killer, a modern-day Jack the Ripper, on the loose in Saddlestring - and it appears his rampage is just beginning.
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Posted May 12, 2004
In Saddlestring, Wyoming, game warden Joe Pickett and his two daughters are fishing when they see dead fish floating in the water. As they walk the river, he finds a man who is taking the fish for sport and throwing them back in the water. While Joe lectures him about the ethics of what he is doing he smells something rancid. The angler points him in the direction of a dead moose. When he goes to investigate, he finds that the moose was mutilated with surgical precision; his organs removed as if someone took them for a trophy......................... Not long after that a call comes in that some cows were killed, just like the moose with no signs of predator or clues to who or what did it. People in Saddlestring are very nervous and property values plummet even though there is an economic boom going on thanks to new technology that allows natural gas to be taken easier out of the ground. When two men are found in the same condition as the cattle and the moose, a task force is formed but Joe goes his own way to find out what is turning his town upside down.......................... Award winning author C.J. Box has a natural gift for describing the beauty of nature contrasting it to the depravities of man. This is a very cleverly constructed mystery, with many different sub-plots tying back to the main storyline. A touch of mysticism and the supernatural enhance the battle between good and evil and it is judiciously applied so readers will have no trouble believing in it. TROPHY HUNT is must reading for cerebral mystery fans........................ Harriet Klausner
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Easy reading and very good
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Posted August 6, 2012
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Posted July 9, 2012
Can i join you? Im super bored.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Box has a great lead character in Pickett and the supporting cast is equally strong. His writing style is smooth and keeps one hooked from the very first page. I was not crazy about the plot - though it was filled with twists and turns, some suspended belief to a degree. That's fine in crime fiction obviously - I just felt this one was a little TOO over the top. Still a great read nonetheless; if you like Box and the Pickett series, you won't go wrong here.
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Posted October 10, 2009
C.J. Box gets better with every book.
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Posted April 8, 2009
I have read series 1-7 and am dredding the wait for the 8th book to come out, this series would make excellent movies.
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Posted September 5, 2007
You Are one of the best author's Americas has given us to this day.Keep up the great work,And in the future, Make it your adventure. J.L, ND
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Posted September 5, 2004
I have had a good time reading all of C.J. Box's stories, but this book Trophy Hunt doesn't arise up to the others. In this story the clues are all over the place, the auther not seeming to pull them togeather. He has to many side stories going on at the same time and the book just seems to go on and on. In my opinion the story could have been more crisp reading with 75 less pages. It seems to me that Box had a good idea for a story but used to much filler to get to the last chapter. Bottom line: Between the first chapter and the last, to much filler. Over all not a bad story, but make no mistake Trophy Hunter is not one of C.J. Boxs best.
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Overview
It's an idyllic late-summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever - or whoever - attacked the animal was ruthless: half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin peeled back from the flesh. Shaken by the sight, Joe starts to investigate what he hopes in an isolated incident." "Days later, after the discovery of a small herd of mutilated cattle, Joe realizes this something much more ...