Book description
It's elk season in the Rockies, but this year one hunter is
stalking a different kind of prey. When the call comes in on the
radio, Joe Pickett can hardly believe his ears: game wardens have
found a hunter dead at a camp in the mountains - strung up, gutted,
skinned, and beheaded, as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A
spent cartridge and a poker chip lie next to his body. Ripples of
horror spread through the community, and with a possibly psychotic
killer on the loose, Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season
early for the first time in state history - outraging hunters and
potentially crippling the state's income from the loss of hunting
license revenue. But when the brutal murders eerily coincide with the
arrival of radical anti-hunting activist Klamath Moore, Pickett knows
the Governor's ruling is the least of his worries. Are the murders the
work of a deranged activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal
vendetta? As always, Joe Pickett is the governor's go-to man, and he's
put on the case to track the murderous hunter, as more bodies - and
poker chips - turn up.
