Joe Pickett · Book 2

Savage Run

Published
1 January 2002
Pages
287
ISBN-13
9780425189245
Type
novel
Cover of Savage Run

About this book

Published in 2002, "Savage Run" is the 2nd Joe Pickett novel, and spans 287 pages. As with the rest of C. J. Box's series, it's built around a real environmental or Western issue filtered through a tight thriller plot, alongside Joe's family life with Marybeth and his uneasy partnership with the off-the-grid Nate Romanowski.

Key facts about Savage Run

C. J. Box wrote Savage Run, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2002. The book has 287 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425189245 to find the main one.

Savage Run is book 2 of 28 in the Joe Pickett series. The series has 27 published books, while 1 more has an announced date. However, the series starts with Open Season (2001).

The Crossroads is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 24 February 2026. Meanwhile, The Missing comes next, with an announced date of 23 February 2027.

Additionally, C. J. Box writes Cassie Dewell as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, The Crossroads is the latest published C. J. Box book on file, from 24 February 2026. The next announced C. J. Box release is due on 23 February 2027, so there is still more to come.

About C. J. Box

C. J. Box is an American crime novelist best known for the Joe Pickett series, following a Wyoming game warden whose investigations into wildlife crimes routinely escalate into far larger conspiracies involving corruption, environmental exploitation, and violence in the rural West. See every C. J. Box book in order.

Its place in Joe Pickett

Savage Run is book 2 in the Joe Pickett series. It follows Open Season. It is followed by Winterkill. See the full Joe Pickett reading order.

Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden — a job that keeps landing him in the middle of murders, poaching conspiracies, eco-terrorism, corporate land grabs and political corruption across the vast, empty country around fictional Saddlestring. Joe is stubborn, chronically underpaid, allergic to political games, and hopeless at holding his tongue around powerful people, which gets him fired, reassigned and shot at with regularity — but it also makes him the game warden who actually goes after the people everyone else…

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