Storm Watch

Game warden Joe Pickett is tracking a wounded elk through his Wyoming district as a major spring storm closes in. What he finds instead is a vehicle abandoned on a remote mountainside, and then the frozen, mutilated body of a missing University of Wyoming professor whose disappearance had left authorities with nothing to go on.

Joe's attempts to find out what happened meet resistance from several directions. Federal agents, extremists and Governor Colter Allen all get in his way, and the trail leads toward a secret, high-tech facility hidden in the backcountry where the professor met his death.

Meanwhile, Nate Romanowski is rebuilding his falconry business and paying for it by mining cryptocurrency with the help of Geronimo Jones. His plans are interrupted when a shadowy militant group approaches him. The group is gaining influence across the state and wants Wyoming to join other western states in seceding from the union, by force if necessary. They want Nate on their side, and he has to decide whether they can be trusted or whether he is being set up.

As danger builds around them like the weather, Joe and Nate each deal with it in their own way. For the first time, the two friends may find themselves on opposite sides. Storm Watch is a Joe Pickett novel by C. J. Box.