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    Below Zero
    Below Zero
    Below Zero
    Audiobook10 hours

    Below Zero

    Written by C. J. Box

    Narrated by David Chandler

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box's Below Zero is the 9th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The telephone calls from her stepdaughter April send chills down the spine of Joe's daughter Sherry. Wasn't April murdered six years ago in a bloody massacre? Wondering how this youthful caller knows details only April could know, Sherry becomes confused while Joe grows suspicious. Is the caller April-or are Joe and his family victims of a cruel hoax?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 3, 2009
    ISBN9781440760068
    Below Zero
    Author

    C. J. Box

    C.J. Box is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels including the award-winning Joe Pickett series. Box has won the Edgar Award for Best Novel as well as the Anthony, Macavity, Barry, and Le Calibre .38 awards. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Box lives outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming. 

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    • 5/5
      One of the absolute best in the series thus far!
    • 5/5
      Always love the Picket Family! Appreciate the reader t, he is consistent and expressive.
    • 5/5
      Box is back! After his previous book, which was not that well received, C.J. Box has returned to his Joe Pickett series, and this one is definitely a winner. Joe's older daughter, Sheridan, starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be April Keeley, her foster sister who died in a fire a few years ago. Who is this person, and how can they find her? It's a suspense-filled book with an unexpected ending. Don't miss it if you're into the Joe Pickett series!
    • 1/5
      Lame. So many jumps to conclusions that only a writer could make. It read more like ‘Fantasy’ than ‘Fiction’. I know there’s a thin line between the two. I just expected something a little closer to real life. My two cents. Yours may be different.
    • 5/5
      This was the very best book yet in this series. No animals brutally killed, and a good ending!!
    • 4/5
      Below Zero is a suspenseful story from beginning to end. Joe Pickett gets himself involved in a situation wherein he has to call on the FBI to help solve who the mystery young woman is who has been texting one of his daughters. It is a story that does not spend chapters on descriptions of murders or sex. Four stars were awarded to this book.
    • 4/5
      Very much the usual Joe Pickett - crime in the great outdoors. Entertaining but not the best thing ever.
    • 4/5
      Before you read on—if you haven't read the third book in the Joe Pickett series, Winterkill, you probably shouldn't read anything else in this post. Really, it's impossible for me to not ruin Winterkill and talk about this book.This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.---Don't say I didn't warn you if you haven't read Winterkill...WHAT'S BELOW ZERO ABOUT?Joe Pickett's daughter starts getting text messages from a very unlikely source: April, her foster sister. The sister that Joe watched die in a fire during a horrific FBI raid on a group of survivalists. Joe and Marybeth are skeptical at first—Sheridan is a little skeptical, but she wants to believe. Eventually, they provisionally accept that it is April texting them and Joe heads off to rendezvous with her.The difficulty comes with April's traveling companions—she's fuzzy on the details, but the men she's with are hurting people. Joe's able to construct a path of where they've been (where they're headed is pretty murky, though) and pieces together some sort of motive. The victims have been significant polluters in their own way—and he's pretty sure that one of the killers is an environmental activist and the child of a notorious mobster, who might have been learning a lesson from his father.Joe now has two goals—track down the person claiming to be April and see if she really is who she claims to be—and learn how she survived, and stop the killings.THE BALANCING ACTBehind the murders stands a discussion about environmental concerns vs. real-world solutions vs. way of life in West. This is a theme of the last few books in the series (probably all of the books, it just feels more pronounced). Generally, when I've encountered this kind of thing it's not dealt with very well—the novel preaches at readers about the environment, an unrealistic solution is approved/implemented, or the whole concern is shrugged off (either because it's too late to do any good* or because the characters don't accept the legitimacy of the concerns. I love the way Box does this and I wish more authors would learn from him.* Yes, I realize that it might be too late, but we're not going to focus on that right now.POOR OLD LUI don't want to say that I've disliked Lucy, Joe's younger daughter. But I've never been taken with her as I have been with the rest of the family. She's too much like her grandmother I guess. She's about clothes and nice things, not about wildlife or her family or whatever it is that makes Sheridan an interesting character.But her reaction to the possibility of April being alive? What's more, her reaction to Sheridan being the sole point of contact between Joe and April? It just broke my heart. I actually wanted her to get to tag along with her dad and sister for a change. I hope this is a sign of things to come and that I finally get the chance to get invested in the character.DAVID CHANDLERI've got nothing to say here that I haven't said before. Chandler is Pickett in my mind. When the TV series starts, I'm going to be comparing Michael Dorman to him (and I think Dorman's not going to fare too well).SO, WHAT DID I THINK ABOUT BELOW ZERO?I hated, hated, hated the way that Box brought April back. This isn't General Hospital or Days of Our Lives, after all. Also, it ruined some of the gut-punch of an ending of Winterkill. But by the end, Box had won me over and convinced me that it wasn't the worst idea he'd ever had.I do wonder how the traveling murderer story would have worked without the April aspect—part of me would have liked a closer focus on that. But I don't know how much I'd have cared about them without April as a point-of-entry into that story.I'm curious about where Joe and the family go from here. It's possible I'll totally get over my antagonism toward the April story within a book or two, it all depends on what Box does from here.
    • 5/5
      SO GOOD!! Joe Pickett continues to keep me entertained and on my toes, with my heart racing all the while.Seventeen-year-old Sheridan has been getting text messages from April Keeley, who supposedly died way back in the third book, Winterkill. Winterkill has been my favorite Pickett book to date, not only because of the crimes and the action in it (survivalist bad guys!) but because it leaned heavily on April Keeley's story. Joe and Marybeth had previously taken April in as their foster daughter. Sadly, April Keeley was killed in one of the major events in Winterkill.Or so we thought.Now that someone claiming to be April has reached out to Sheridan, Joe has the opportunity to right some wrongs and fix the regrets that came after that awful situation. Joe aims to figure out who keeps contacting Sheridan, and why, and where this person claiming to be April is. Joe goes as far as to boldly take a leave of absence from his work for Governor Rulon and head out on the road.And this time, he takes Sheridan with him. (LOVED that.)Okay, so first of all: I can hardly bear the idea that Sheridan has grown up in front of my eyes, right on the pages of these novels!! My own twin daughters are 17, so EVERYTHING with Sheridan rings absolutely true. I have always loved the way C.J. Box has a way with creating young female characters so well, and I've grown to respect Sheridan more and more since her time on the pages in the first novel. She is headstrong, independent, smart, and very cool. She's an apprentice falconer, trained by none other than Nate Romanowski, and I continue to be thrilled every time she and Joe interact on the pages. Their father-daughter relationship feels authentic, truthful, and really sweet.ALSO: I'm loving that Joe has grown a little more adventurous over the past few books in terms of blurring the lines of legality. He has such a conscience and a true desire to do the right thing all the time, but he seems to be learning that sometimes the right thing isn't always the legal thing. In addition, he has done things that aren't really right or legal over the past few books, and I feel like his guilt and mixed feelings about his own actions makes his character more complex. I LOVE Joe Pickett and I'm so excited that I still have a ton of books in this series because watching him work is one of my favorite ways to spend my reading time.AND! I was shocked at some of the newer developments in Nate's life!! WHOA!! I love it, I love his character, and I'm so glad he is important on these pages. Every time Nate shows up in these Pickett books, I get excited and I read faster and faster. He's such a wild card. He doesn't really care that much about the law, but he cares a great deal about the people he loves. Which means he is completely loyal to Joe. Their friendship and unusual work partnership is probably my favorite character relationship of any series, ever.I don't want to talk about the events in this book, because it was hella good watching them all unfold. But I will say that there are hunters that injure animals for sport (not cool at all and Joe is on that case, for sure) and there are several really bad characters that are mobsters and/or environmental true believers. So exciting. So damn good.Audiobook Notes: I listened to most of this book on audiobook, You guys know by now I'm probably the BIGGEST Joe-Pickett-on-audiobook fan out there. But the more the story amped up, the faster I needed the story. So toward the end, I had to turn the audio off so I could read with my eyes. I read faster than the audiobook is read, and I was just too impatient for the outcome of this one to listen to every minute of the audio. This is not to knock on David Chandler's narration, which is doggone perfection (especially with Nate's character). I just needed the story faster.I'm off to buy the next audiobook in this series, bye!Title: Below Zero by C.J. BoxSeries: Joe Pickett #9Narrator: David ChandlerLength: 10 hours, 22 minutes, UnabridgedPublisher: Recorded Books
    • 4/5
      Joe's foster daughter April, who died several years ago, has reappeared as a text on daughter Sheridan's phone. Is it really her and how can Joe save her. This is a good one in the series, I thought.
    • 4/5
      This has been my favorite one so far. Joe Pickett got to move around the state, spend time with his family, catch a poacher while looking for some bad guys killing people.
    • 5/5
      Antagonists are evil, one is even a psychopath, believing he is trying to "erase the carbon foot prints" of his victims. If you are a Joe Pickett fan you will enjoy the story and the timely theme. The wimpy-ass governor is a particularly heinous character. April, Joe Pickett's deceased step-daughter. re-appears in this book, or at least it seems she does. This book brought much enjoyment.
    • 3/5
      Joe and his daughter Sheridan are in hot pursuit of the foster daughter they thought had died several years earlier in an FBI shoot-out. The girls' texting is the major clue, while she is held hostage by a gangster who rescued her from a brothel and his son. The son is a rabid environmentalist gone bad who kills people who leave excessive carbon footprint.
    • 5/5
      I know Below Zero is not CJ Box’s latest novel, but it is the latest one I’ve read and I am just as riveted as I was with all the rest. Joe Pickett and his family, Marybeth, Sheridan and Lucy, continue to burrow into the hearts of CJ’s readers. Joe, a Wyoming game warden who often finds himself on the disgruntled side of either the director of the Wyoming Game and Fish, the Wyoming governor, one or more county sheriffs, or his wife, finds he must take a leave of absence to investigate text messages Sheridan is receiving from someone calling herself April. We, CJ Box’s loyal readers, believe that April, their adopted daughter, was killed six years before in Winterkill. We are immediately pulled into the story because we, along with Joe and Sheridan, can hardly breathe at the thought that April might be alive and is reaching out for help. We have no choice but to force ourselves into the truck with the two of them as father and oldest daughter head off —despite Marybeth’s concern for Sheridan’s safety, and Lucy’s anger at not being included—to find and save April and bring her home.

      Being busy with my own writing and research, I usually find it difficult to hold my attention to a story I’m reading, no matter the author. With Below Zero (or anything CJ Box writes) I have a hard time leaving it to return to my own work. He keeps me engaged and rooting for the heroes, often as in the westerns and mysteries of old, wanting to yell out, “Look out behind you!” or “Quick! Hide!” There are times I want to punch someone in the nose, or worse. Sometimes that someone is Joe Pickett himself when he doesn’t see the obvious. Of course we can’t forget about Nate Romanowski.
      A Joe Pickett adventure would not be complete without the .454 Casull-carrying falconer and fugitive who is determined to do whatever it takes, legal or not, to protect the Pickett family.

      I am writing this review before finishing Below Zero because, frankly, I don’t want to inadvertently give the ending away. Do Joe and Sheridan find the girl claiming to be April, alive and unhurt? Is she April? If so where has she been for six years? Why hasn’t she made contact earlier? What unlawful act does Nate Romanowski commit in the name of the Pickett family’s friendship? Do we remember why Nate feels he owes Joe his lifelong gratitude?

      CJ Box keeps the stories going, book to book, year to year. I can’t wait to watch Sheridan turn into an adult. What further tribulations do she and Lucy have down the road? CJ, don’t ever quite writing while I’m still around.
    • 4/5
      April died six years ago. Joe was a witness in a mistake-lade stakeout. The family mourned April as if she really was there instead of a foster child. So - who called on Sheridan's phone saying she was April? This, combined with several important deaths in "Blood Trail"; leaves Joe and family upset to say the least. On top of this, a Chicago mobster is on the run in Wyoming, accompanied by a young girl and his pretty sure he's crazy son. Murders happen wherever this trio lights. A very good book in a great series. One of the best so far.
    • 4/5
      I have fallen behind 3 books in this series, so catch up I will. The below zero plot to this book was on the downside, a little far fetched for me, but the rest of the book was plausible and kept you moving forward. I love his writing and family in Joe Pickett... enjoyable read, different and very landscape descriptive.
    • 2/5
      This is a terribly disappointing entry in a series that, while not up there at the top, was at lest interesting and fairly well written. But however much I'm willing to suspend belief, I just couldn't take the plot premises in Below Zero. One strain on credulity is bad enough, but two put it over the top. The chase in the last quarter of the book is pretty well done, but as a whole, the book, in my opinion, is not up to Box's usual standards. Avoid.
    • 4/5
      Box does it again! This is the 9th book in the series and a solid one at that. The story takes off fast and keeps rolling forward like a steamroller. I always think a person should read a series in order, but in this case make sure you read Winterkill before reading this book. The only downside of this book is that it was too short. Box should have spent more time on Joe and Sheridan.A good book in an excellent series.
    • 4/5
      It is nice to read a well written novel with a main character who is a realistic, modern man and a plain old nice guy. If you are a Joe Pickett fan you will enjoy the story and the timely theme. If you are not yet a fan give it a try, you may find a new name to add to your go to list. However, Box makes a serious error over and over. There is no such creature as a pronghorn antelope. There is the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) of the western US and there is the old world antelope. They are not the same animal. It would be like referring to a praire dog (Cynomys) as a small blonde black bear because other than size they look a lot alike. If one chooses to write about wildlife do the research.
    • 4/5
      Joe Pickett is away when a call comes into his home from April. The family is shocked because Joe's daughter, April, died five years ago.April had been abandoned by her mother when she was 6. Marybeth and Joe took here in as a foster child. Three years later, the Soverigns, a group of Montana Freeman, survivalists took April back by a legal manuver. The FBI is after the Soverigns for weapons violations and have cornered them at a trailer where April is with them. There is a gas explosion and Joe believer she has died. The bodies of two adults and one child were found but Joe could never bring himself to view the charred remains of the child. However one Sovereign escaped in the smoke of the fire and April was with him.April was then passed from family to family until she ended up with a family that had a number of foster children in order to get their welfare checks. The husband makes advances at April but another girl, April's age sticks up for her. The father then takes April to a brotheral and sells her. As she is being groomed to work there a man named Stenko arrives. April reminds him of his deceased daughter, Carmen and he rescues her. However, Stenko is dying of cancer and he and his son are traveling around killing people who have harmed the ecology.Now Joe must stop Stenko, rescue April and prove to her that he and Marybeth didn't abandon her when they thought April was dead.This is more than just a mystery. The author goes into the relationship of a father and his children and explores the question of trust.The characters are strong and the story for the most part was unique. Joe is a heroic character who has appeared in all but one of the author's books and this novel is a good representation of the author's fine storytelling.
    • 5/5
      Box is back! After his previous book, which was not that well received, C.J. Box has returned to his Joe Pickett series, and this one is definitely a winner. Joe's older daughter, Sheridan, starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be April Keeley, her foster sister who died in a fire a few years ago. Who is this person, and how can they find her? It's a suspense-filled book with an unexpected ending. Don't miss it if you're into the Joe Pickett series!
    • 5/5
      I like C.J. Box and have read all of his books. April, Joe Pickett's deceased step-daughter. re-appears in this book, or at least it seems she does. I was brought to the point of tears on more than one occasion reading this book, but the tears definitely flowed at the end. One of the best in the series.