Joe Pickett · Book 27

The Crossroads

by C. J. Box

Published
24 February 2026
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9780593851098
Type
novel

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About this book

"The Crossroads" (2026) continues the Joe Pickett series at number 26, and runs 352 pages. It continues the series' running threads -- Joe's family, his partnership with falconer and vigilante Nate Romanowski, and the landscape writing that makes Wyoming's high plains a character in their own right.

Its place in Joe Pickett

The Crossroads is book 27 in the Joe Pickett series. It follows Battle Mountain. It is followed by The Missing. 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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