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    Off the Grid
    Off the Grid
    Off the Grid
    Audiobook10 hours

    Off the Grid

    Written by C. J. Box

    Narrated by David Chandler

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times-bestselling author C. J. Box returns with a suspenseful new Joe Pickett novel. Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite professional special operators. They're not there to threaten him, but to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear. But they are not what they seem, as Nate's friend Joe Pickett discovers. They have a much different plan in mind, and it just may be something that takes them all down-including Nate and Joe.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9781501911675
    Off the Grid
    Author

    C. J. Box

    C. J. BOX is the New York Times best-selling author of many novels including the Joe Pickett series. He has won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, and the Barry Award. Over four million copies of his novels have been sold in the U.S. alone and they have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Wyoming.  

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    • 5/5
      High adventure, twisted plots, fascinating characters, the author has again written an outstanding novel! I absolutely love his work!!!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Joe and Nate teams up to take down the bad guys!
      Loved it and absolutely love the reader!

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    • 3/5
      This is my first C. J. Box "Joe Pickett" novel, the game warden, (but it was more about his friend Nate, a veteran, so I'm definitely reading out of order, if I read more in the series, which I might. Nate and Joe get involved with a group of activists who are taken over by some Mideast terrorists in the red desert of Wyoming, which is between Rock Springs and Rawlins in Wyoming, off I-80. Kept me reading ! Would make a pretty good movie.
    • 5/5
      First audio book. Enjoyed it. If you have not tried it yet, I invite you to a new beginning….listening through your car audio system. This Joe Picket thriller will keep you entertained while heading to your daily destinations.
    • 4/5
      Box is still going strong with this series. Sure, the plot strains credibility to an extent, but it is cleverly executed and a lot of fun. The hallmarks of the series are still evident in this 16th volume in the series: Box's wit and solid writing, clever plotting, very vivid descriptions of setting, well-drawn characters, and delivering the goods with plenty of action and peril for the main characters. This is till one of the most enjoyable mystery series going right now. The series seems to be going in a darker direction of late, which I don't mind at all.
    • 4/5
      4.5 stars.

      Off the Grid by C.J. Box is a terrifyingly realistic thriller that takes place in the very isolated Red Desert area in Wyoming. This sixteenth installment in the Joe Pickett series reunites Game Warden Joe Pickett with his good friend, Nate Romanowski, when their paths unexpectedly cross after the outgoing governor asks Joe to investigate the suspicious happenings in the desert.

      Nate has been living completely off the grid when an unspecified government agency sends two of its agents to coerce him into finding missing journalist Muhammad "Ibby" Ibraaheem. Although Ibby's reputation is impeccable, his disappearance nearly two years earlier certainly caught the attention of the federal government and it appears he may be involved in some type of terrorist plot. Nate wants nothing more than to be left alone, but the agents' promise of expunging his record coupled with some very unsubtle threats convince him to accept the assignment.

      Just as Joe is heading home from a long day in the field, a distress call about a rogue bear possibly attacking a hunter puts his evening plans on hold. Using info from the GPS trackers on both the hunter and the bear, his worst fears are realized when he finds the nearly dead hunter in the bear's cache. Joe narrowly escapes the hunter's fate when the bear returns but both he and the bear escape the encounter unscathed. With the bear's whereabouts now unknown, he thinks outgoing Governor Spencer Rulon is planning to assign him the nearly impossible task of tracking the bear but much to his surprise, Rulon wants Joe to investigate what is going on in the Red Desert.

      Neither Nate nor Joe is prepared for what is awaiting them in the desert. The conditions in the remote area are harsh and unforgiving but what they discover at Ibby's camp ratchets the danger level into the stratosphere. Ibby's idealistic plan is about to come to fruition but, unbeknownst to him, the other men he is working with are planning an attack so catastrophic that it is nearly incomprehensible. Nate and Joe are determined to foil the terrorist plot but they are so completely outnumbered and outgunned, they cannot help but wonder if they will escape with their lives.

      With a plausible plot and plenty of action, Off the Grid by C.J. Box is a pulse-pounding thriller that is fast-paced and engrossing. The storyline is horrifyingly realistic in this post 9/11 era and the bad guys are chillingly brutal and willing to die for their cause. The beautiful yet desolate Red Desert is the ideal setting for these nefarious dealings and it is also the perfect backdrop for Joe and Nate's final stand against the evildoers. A riveting novel of suspense, this sixteenth installment in the Joe Pickett series can be read as a standalone, but I highly recommend the entire series.
    • 3/5
      The book starts off as start of a distant feel but ramps up as the two plot lines intersect. Even though this is book #16 in the Joe Pickett series, it's only the second book of this series that I've read.Nate Romanowski lives off the grid by choice--and by necessity since he's a wanted fugitive. The illness of his girlfriend, Olivia Brannon,'s mother reveals their location to those looking for him. They need his falconry skills to bond with Ibby, also a falconer who is off the grid.Meanwhile, Joe Pickett is tracking a grizzly bear who killed a hunter, and his daughter Sheridan (who'd once been an apprentice to Nate) agrees to go camping as a volunteer with her roommate. Off the grid also refers to how we'd end up having to live if EMP pulses manage to disable electric stations and other key targets that could be hit by terrorists.
    • 5/5
      C.J. BoxOFF THE GRID: A Joe Pickett NovelG.P. Putnam Sons, 2016384 pagesThriller / SuspenseSo, it turns out C.J. Box has an entire Joe Pickett series. Some fourteen or fifteen Joe Pickett novels. And I, fortunately, just discovered him--or them--or him, the author--Pickett the character. I will admit, I am super excited. Thing is, OFF THE GRID is the latest. Now I must go back and read the other books in the series. (This I shall do gladly!)Anywho. OFF THE GRID is a brisk thriller. This can be called a Nate Romanowski Novel as much, or as equally, as it can be called a Joe Pickett novel. Seems I missed a lot not having read the earlier books in the series, but I did not feel lost as a reader jumping in at the end. (Good thing!).By court order, and law, and signed agreements and such, Joe and Nate are not allowed contact with each other. In fact, Nate is wanted by the law. Crimes committed, laws broken. Living off the grid, Nate and his girlfriend, Olivia Brannan are in hiding in Wyoming. They're making a living at not getting found. That is, until they are found.When the Wolverines come calling, this super secret team of government employees across all branches of the government, Nate has no choice but to hear them out. They need his help. Because of his unique talents as a falconer he may be the only one who can infiltrate a terrorist cell somewhere in the Red Desert. In return, Nate is promised his record will be wiped clean. Erased.However, if he fails, if he is caught, if anything goes wrong--the Wolverines will deny any involvement, and Nate will go to prison for previous criminal activity, and pay for whatever new charges tacked on.Joe Pickett, a game warden, is called upon by the governor (once again, apparently) to help on a special assignment. He knows he can use the tracking of a rogue bear as a cover. The task will lead the game warden down a road similar to Nate's. The threat of terrorism is all around.As if never separated, Joe and Nate work together, without knowing the other is even involved, gathering up evidence, and information with the hopes of shutting down, preventing, an act of terror before the terrorist act can be committed!Box writes terse, taut scenes. His characters are well drafted, and authentic. He pulled me right into the story (which I didn't think would be easy because I knew I was on the latest book in the series, and not the first -- which is the kind of thing that bothers me as a reader). It didn't matter. OFF THE GRID worked as an independent tale, a stand alone novel. It isn't. But it worked as one. Loved the dialogue, and the action. And as I stated up top -- I will be reading the other books in the series!Phillip TomassoAuthor of The Severed Empire Saga,and the Vaccination Trilogy
    • 5/5
      You can never go wrong with C.J. Box and one of my favorite main characters, Joe Pickett! This audiobook literally kept me driving all over the countryside because I couldn't stop listening! Nate (really love him, too) is back and making a deal with the government (or is it?) to go to the Red Desert in Montana to find a missing Prince who is also a falconer. Hang on because the action doesn't slow down until everything is over! Highly recommended!
    • 4/5
      I swear that CJ Box gets better with each novel. This is the newest Joe Pickett story and, as usual, someone is in danger. This time is seems to be a combination of Nate, Sheridan and Joe. Sent off by the Governor as his last act of office, Joe is sent to see what is happening in a desolate area of Montana with an Arab prince, seriously bad bad guys and his oldest daughter who had no idea what she's gotten into.It's a good thing that Nate Romanowski happens to be in the same area through an agreement with some piece of shadow-government agents. But even he ends up hurt.A great tale and just what you have come to expect from CJ Box.
    • 4/5
      Finally C J Box featured more of Nate Romanowski. There's just enough twists and turns that kept me turning pages.
    • 2/5
      I once had a writing teacher who had a theory that each author who is insecure with his manuscript has a "tell." And the "tell" is to let his insecurities be reflected in something said/thought by one of the characters about whom he's writing.

      The "tell" in this book screamed out when a hostage thinks, "It all looked like a bad cartoon, but it wasn't."

      Sorry, I beg to differ. It WAS.

      I have to admit that this is the only C.J. Box novel I've read. I understand that this is the 16th(!) in his series featuring Joe Pickett. Maybe his earlier novels were better. I am suspicious that any author can stay fresh after the 16th novel in a series. But I had heard something good about this book, and I was looking for a pass-the-time thriller, but this was sorely disappointing.

      First of all, the villains were all cookie-cutter "types." All good thrillers are distinguished by great villains. Otherwise, they just become cardboard targets in a shooting gallery.

      And I can't say the other characterizations are much better. Perhaps the author counts on his readers having read other books in the series to know what flesh to hang on their skeletons, but Joe Pickett was impossibly incorruptible--John Wayne playing a fish and game warden--and his friend Nate was Dirty Harry with a bit of a softer heart.

      Real human psychology is neither present in this book. An idealistic activist has built a device to sock it to a government data-collection facility by means of electromagnetic pulse, just to teach a lesson, and thinks the use of the device could be constrained just that one usage. What could possibly go wrong? Even though he has an obviously menacing sidekick, he sees no threat in him. His followers believe him to be a charismatic visionary. They're obviously idiots, and so is he.

      Further, when a bunch of those followers are taken hostage by gunmen, and after hostages witness the violence their captors are willing to visit upon them by a couple of grisly deaths, no one seems particularly traumatized. A couple of them are even wise-cracking under their breaths. Indeed, it's here where the one hostage thinks, "It all looked like a bad cartoon . . ." REALLY? A leader is beheaded before them and a fellow hostage summarily shot in the head, and these actions to the witness seems a bad cartoon?

      It's the book that's a bad cartoon. If C.J. Box's earlier books were better, I'll never know. Because this one has discouraged me from finding out.

      [P.S. There was one good scene: tracking an errant grizzly bear. In his telling of that episode, Mr. Box showed he certainly has talent. I just wish the rest of the book were up to that caliber.]
    • 4/5
      Joe and Nate are sent in the same direction by two separate government groups to the remote and desolate Red Desert of Wyoming. A peaceful yet destructive anti-US activity is hijacked by some really bad Middle Eastern types and mayhem ensues. The big shootout at the end is resolved by the timely arrival of the modern day calvary. A lively and interesting entry in this enjoyable series.
    • 2/5
      No matter how many times you write it, CJ, the only wild antelope in North America are in zoos. The animal is a pronghorn, you encourage general ignorance when you refuse to properly identify this unique Western American animal. There is a glaring, ignorant grammatical error on page 138. Putnam needs to hire editors with at least a 4th grade knowledge of grammar. Read the sentence, Joe could care less. A tip from a long time elementary teacher, if it doesn't make sense, it is probably incorrect.You tell a good story, sadly your childish errors ruin the experience for me. Putnam makes lots of money from your book sales, they are not serving you well with such poor editing.I'd really like my $27 back. I didn't get a free advance copy from any one and yes, this is an honest review.
    • 5/5
      This one I give a five star to. I love this series and this has been one of my favorites in a long time. I love Joe and Nate when they are both in the story equally. Keep more coming like this story. I received an ebook copy of this book from Firsttoread for a fair and honest opinion.