Force of Nature Author: C. J. Box | Language: English | ISBN:
B005GSYZBQ | Format: PDF
Force of Nature Description
ONE OF
LIBRARY JOURNAL'S BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR
In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it—like Nate, who’s hidden himself away in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. And he knows exactly how Nemecek will do it—by targeting Nate's friends to draw him out. That includes his friend, game warden Joe Pickett, and Pickett’s entire family. The only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn't sure about his straight-arrow friend. And all their lives could depend on it.
- File Size: 645 KB
- Print Length: 396 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0857890859
- Publisher: Berkley (March 20, 2012)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005GSYZBQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,680 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Finally, here is a wall to wall great thriller by Box, after a couple of duds. The last two Joe Pickett novels kind of fell apart at the end, building up to exciting climaxes that fell flat. Force of Nature is start to finish an edge of your seat page turner that gets Box back into the familiar territory of the first few books in the series.
One of the best things about the book is that most of the narrative focuses on Joe's survivalist friend Nate Romanowski. Like Robert Crais created his sidekick Joe Pike for his Elvis Cole novels (then spun him off), Box does the same for Nate, except Nate is a more interesting character than Joe Pike (he actually speaks, for one thing). A group related to his activities in special forces begins hunting Nate down, led by one man (his ex-trainer and arch enemy), and the body count starts right in the first chapter as Nate's nemesis is determined to finish off Nate and anyone around him (including Game Warden Joe Pickett and his family).
Taking the focus away from Pickett and his family works well; in my opinion, Joe and his family and their soap opera struggles seem to be getting stale lately (although dumping Joe's idiotic mother in law after the events of the last novel was a great idea, she's a huge bummer anytime she's in one of his books). What frustrates me about Joe's cast and story is that nothing really has changed for him, even after more than a decade and nearly a dozen books: he still gets no respect from law enforcement (despite solving many tough cases), the sheriff (even though he's a different character than the first sheriff) is still an incompetent boob, and his kids are nothing but window dressing.
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