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The Edgar(R) Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller about a troubled cop trying to save his son from a killer in Yellowstone. Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend's death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behavior with his department, he's in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Cody's determined to find his killer. When clues found at the scene link the murderer to an outfitter leading tourists on a multi-day wilderness horseback trip into the remote corners of Yellowstone National Park--a pack trip that includes his son Justin--Cody is desperate to get on their trail and stop the killer before the group heads into the wild. Among the tourists is fourteen-year-old Gracie Sullivan, an awkward but intelligent loner who begins to suspect that someone in their party is dangerous. In a fatal cat and mouse game, where it becomes apparent the murderer is somehow aware of Cody's every move, Cody treks into the wilderness to stop a killer hell bent on ruining the only thing in his life he cares about. C. J. Box's Back of Beyond is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Mysteries title.

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<p> Between work and money concerns, did your big summer holiday plans somehow end in a sad little staycation? Let C.J. Box take you on an audio tour of Yellowstone National Park - murder, mystery and mountains included... Narrator Holter Graham conveys the demons, rage and parental love inside Cody. Box, a best-selling mystery writer and Wyoming native, crafts a taut tale, but it's his details about the untamed flora and fauna - two-legged as well as four - that inhabit the wildness out West that hooks you. - USA Today PRAISE FOR C.J. BOX: <p> Skilled pacing and well developed suspense in what might be called 'Juno' with a body count. --People on Three Weeks to Say Goodbye <p> Box builds suspense so brilliantly that Blue Heaven could serve as a textbook of how to do it. --Booklist (starred review) on Blue Heaven <p> Box. . . understands the West and Westerners like no other writer . . . Three Weeks to Say Goodbye ignites a parent's worst nightmares and asks a harrowing

PRAISE FOR C.J. BOX: <p> Skilled pacing and well developed suspense in what might be called 'Juno' with a body count. --People on Three Weeks to Say Goodbye <p> Box builds suspense so brilliantly that Blue Heaven could serve as a textbook of how to do it. --Booklist (starred review) on Blue Heaven <p> Box. . . understands the West and Westerners like no other writer . . . Three Weeks to Say Goodbye ignites a parent's worst nightmares and asks a harrowing question: How far would you go to keep your child? It features Box's usual deft plotting and compelling characters. --Rocky Mountain News on Three Weeks to Say Goodbye <p> Box alternates violence with surprising tenderness in a suspenseful tour de force. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Blue Heaven <p> My favorite kind of thriller--one with heart. --Boston Globe on Blue Heaven <p> A page-turning, suspense-ratcheting success. --Cleveland Plain-Dealer on Blue Heaven <p> Heart-shredding. . . when the

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C.J. BOX is the bestselling author of Three Weeks to Say Goodbye, and several novels including the award-winning Joe Pickett series. Blue Heaven won the Edgar(R) Award for Best Novel in 2009, and he's won the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, and the Barry Award. His first novel, Open Season, was a New York Times Notable Book and an Edgar(R) Award and L.A. Times Book Prize finalist. The novels have been translated into 25 languages. Box lives in Wyoming. Holter Graham, winner of AudioFile's 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy for Sherrilyn Kenyon's Acheron, is a stage, television, and screen actor. He has recorded numerous audiobooks, including much of Sherrilyn Kenyon's bestselling Dark-Hunter series. The winner of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he has also read works by Scott Turow, Dean Koontz, C. J. Box, and Stephen Frey.

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