DARK SKY (Joe Pickett #21) (audiobook) by C.J. Box

 












Published by Recorded Books in 2021.
Read by David Chandler.
Duration: 9 hours, 31 minutes.
Unabridged.


Winner of the Spur Award for Western Contemporary Novel (2022)


Synopsis:

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is good at his job and is known for dealing honestly with everyone. Usually, it's a good thing to have a great reputation. But, it can also mean that people dump the uncomfortable jobs on you because they know you will do them.

The new Governor of Wyoming has an idea that will pick up his slumping poll numbers - he will convince a tech mogul to build his latest server farm in Wyoming. He hopes that the prestige and, more importantly, new high-paying jobs will help the voting public overlook his scandals when it comes time for re-election.

The tech mogul is sort of a combination of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg. He has new skills he wants to master and the current skill he wants to master is providing himself with all of his own food. He gardens and hunts everything and he is coming to Wyoming to go on an elk hunt in the mountains. Joe Pickett has been chosen to make sure he has a successful hunt and tell him all of the advantages of placing his server farm in Wyoming.

However, there is more awaiting this hunting party than a herd of elk...

My Review:

In my review of the 20th book in this series, Long Range, I wished that Joe Pickett would stop acting like a regular police officer and have cases that took him out into the mountains again. This book fits the bill perfectly! As a bonus, there was some discussion of the pluses and minuses of social media.

I rate this audiobook 5 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: Dark Sky (Joe Pickett #21) by C.J. Box.

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