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A review by woody1881
Winterkill by C.J. Box
3.0
Joe Pickett novels are always a welcome escape.
I sometimes get a little frustrated with Joe. He does things that seem a bit stupid, and he does not seem to learn. Here is a tip, if you carry a semiautomatic handgun into a place you believe you might need it, the time to get one in the chamber is weeks ago when you cleaned it and put a magazine in it. Unless you are an urban gang member with no earthly idea about anything related to the gun you are carrying, the time to operate the slide is not seconds before there might be shooting. In any police, or game warden story I realize there will be certain truths that just bog down a story, so one must suspend disbelief, but in a large agency a use of deadly force puts the player in the penalty box for months, a small agency may be slightly quicker, but probably not. So whether it is a weapon or a car that gets used, there has to be some kind of follow up when a government agent uses it. I don't expect or want a full telling of the administrative nonsense, but to hear nothing about it again seems, well, wrong.
There was one other, and in my opinion more serious issue with the story. One that was quite dramatic and filled with actual mayhem, and not another word was spoken about it. And no other characters in the book ever asked about it. It left a lot of questions for me.
Having said all that, this was still a great, and slightly dark, story in the Joe Pickett series. I will get the next book soon.
I sometimes get a little frustrated with Joe. He does things that seem a bit stupid, and he does not seem to learn. Here is a tip, if you carry a semiautomatic handgun into a place you believe you might need it, the time to get one in the chamber is weeks ago when you cleaned it and put a magazine in it. Unless you are an urban gang member with no earthly idea about anything related to the gun you are carrying, the time to operate the slide is not seconds before there might be shooting. In any police, or game warden story I realize there will be certain truths that just bog down a story, so one must suspend disbelief, but in a large agency a use of deadly force puts the player in the penalty box for months, a small agency may be slightly quicker, but probably not. So whether it is a weapon or a car that gets used, there has to be some kind of follow up when a government agent uses it. I don't expect or want a full telling of the administrative nonsense, but to hear nothing about it again seems, well, wrong.
There was one other, and in my opinion more serious issue with the story. One that was quite dramatic and filled with actual mayhem, and not another word was spoken about it. And no other characters in the book ever asked about it. It left a lot of questions for me.
Having said all that, this was still a great, and slightly dark, story in the Joe Pickett series. I will get the next book soon.