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In C.J. Box's Joe Pickett novel, Nowhere To Run, he sends his game warden out into the high mountain wilderness of Wyoming during his last week as the temporary game warden in the isolated town of Baggs. There have been strange things going on in the surrounding mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with, like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and all too deadly.

During this program Box talks with TWQ producer Chérie Newman about Nowhere To Run, including Joe Pickett's backstory and where the idea for this intense story came from. Box also reads from the book.

C.J. Box is the author of elevenJoe Pickett novels and three stand-alones, and has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38 and the French Elle magazine literary award. His books have been translated into 22 languages. He lives in Wyoming.

Visit C.J. Box's Web site.

Read a review of Nowhere To Run in the Denver Post.

You'll find Nowhere To Run and other books by C.J. Box at Fact & Fiction in Missoula, or at your local independent bookseller.

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Read an interview with TWQ producer Chérie Newman on the Humanities Montana Web site.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Lisa Simon, David Moore, Barbara Theroux, and Kim Anderson.

This program is supported in part by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans. And by the Montana Cultural Trust.

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Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.