"Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must investigate an attempted murder--a crime committed from a confoundingly long distance--in the riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box"--,Provided by publisher

After joining the rescue efforts for the victim of a grizzly attack, Joe Picket is called home. Someone is shooting at a prominent local judge, and his wife has been wounded. All signs point to the shots having been taken from an impossibly long distance. How could the shooting have been arranged? And who else is in the cross hairs? When Joe's best friend Nate Romanowski falls under suspicion for the crime, it's a race against the clock to identify the real shooter.. -- adapted from jacket