<b>"Impressive precision and heart-gripping suspense....Good characters, an extra good story, and great scenes of life and death in the wilderness"--<b><i>New York Times Book Review </i></b><br /><br />Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder--a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance--in the riveting new novel from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author C. J. Box.</b><br /><br />When Joe Pickett is asked to join the rescue efforts for the victim of a startling grizzly attack, he reluctantly leaves his district behind. One survivor of the grizzly&apos;s rampage tells a bizarre story, but just as Joe begins to suspect the attack is not what it seems, he is brought home by an emergency on his own turf. Someone has targeted a prominent local judge, shooting at him from a seemingly impossible distance. While the judge was not hit, his wife is severely wounded, and it is up to Joe to find answers--and the shooter. <br /><br />The search for the would-be assassin becomes personal when Joe&apos;s best friend, Nate Romanowski --just as he&apos;s adjusting to the arrival of his first child--falls under suspicion for the crime. It&apos;s a race against the clock as Joe tries to clear Nate&apos;s name and identify the real shooter, all while deciphering the grizzly encounter. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe.