
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 & beheaded as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing. A spent cartridge & a poker chip lie next to his body. Ripples of horror spread through the community & 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 & 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 & he's put on the case to track the murderous hunter as more bodies
- & poker chips
- turn up.