Winterkill (Joe Pickett Novels)

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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett returns in this third adventure in C.J. Box's tough, tender, and engrossing series, which just keeps getting better. When a forest service supervisor is murdered right after a manic shooting spree that slaughtered a herd of elk, a mysterious stranger who trains falcons and carries an unusual weapon is arrested for the slaying. Then a special investigative team headed by a devious, vindictive woman arrives in Saddlestring, bent on a bloody confrontation with a group of government-hating survivalists camped out on federal land. Among then is Jeannie Keeley, who abandoned her daughter April three years earlier. Since then, April has become like a daughter to Joe and his wife Marybeth, and a sister to their own children. Now April is right in the middle of what promises to be the last stand for the ragged band of refugees from the firestorms of Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Montana Freemen, and only Nate the falconer, who owes Joe his life for finding the real killer of the supervisor and freeing him from jail, may be able to save her before the Bighorn Mountains are covered in blood. A tense, taut thriller marked by lyrical renderings of the harsh, beautiful landscape, Winterkill's subtext, as in Box's previous novels, is the conflict between individual rights and freedoms and governmental power that continues to smolder in the towns and valleys of the American west. --Jane Adams

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Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn when his beloved foster daughter is kidnapped. Now it's personal.

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"THE KILLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Anthony Award-winning author of Open Season and Savage Run. Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn when his beloved foster daughter is kidnapped. Now it's personal."

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Another good read by Box.......2005-10-15

I started the Picket novels on recommendation from Amazon after buying the Alex McNight series by Steve Hamilton. Both book series are easy reads that will draw you in before you know it. They are slightly incredible in storyline over the series (as are most series books -after all, how many exciting things can happen to the same person over and over), but still enjoyable. Not as complex as someone like Ludlum, but very enjoyable for a tired mind after a busy week of work.

If you like these, try The McNight books by Steve Hamilton.

Good Book for a Snowy Day.......2005-06-08

And plenty of snow there is, adding proper atmosphere to a brooding mystery. Good character development, plausible (most of the time) plot lines, some weird characters, painted so as to generate maximum hatred or respect. When the lady from the Forest Service first appears, you almost can hear readers hissing all across America. When the sheriff gets snide with Pickett, you want to relish what you hope will be his humiliation before the book ends. Scenes at the snowed-in Pickett household are poignant in light of future plot turns. A good page turner, with nicely done descriptions of the Big Horn Mountain area of almost-mystical Wyoming. May you write long and well, C.J. Box.

Things get personal.......2005-02-25

The third Joe Pickett mystery once again finds trouble brewing in the wilds of Wyoming, but this time there is an added obstacle to maintaining peace and tranquility in this beautiful part of the world - the harsh winter storms have closed the place down. In the first two books by C.J. Box, (Open Season and Savage Run), we have been treated to mysteries with strong environmental themes. In Winterkill Joe turns his attention to a murder investigation and then a more pressing personal crisis.

Joe Pickett is the game warden with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department living in the small town of Saddlestring, Twelve Sleep County. He is a quiet and easy-going family man, husband to Marybeth, father to 11 year-old Sheridan, 6 year old Lucy and foster-father to 9 year-old April. A fair, hard-working man he stands up for what he believes in even when that means leaving himself and, occasionally, his family open to get hurt.

While out on his regular patrol one winter's day, Joe witnesses a hunter who flouts the 1 elk bag limit by running amok through a herd, taking down 7 animals before Joe can get to him. When he does he is shocked to find that the hunter is none other than Lamar Gardiner, the district supervisor for Twelve Sleep National Forest, the person who makes the hunting laws, not the person who breaks them. In a typically Joe Pickett moment, Lamar escapes his custody and rushes into the forest in the middle of a worsening snowstorm. By the time Joe finds him again, he has been brutally murdered.

Coinciding with the murder is the arrival of a ragtag group of people in SUV's and camper-vans who take up residence in the National Park outside of town; they call themselves Sovereigns and are a mixture of anti-government protesters and dropouts. Among the Sovereigns is Jeannie Keeley, April's mother, a bitter and angry woman who abandoned April when she was a toddler. Joe and Marybeth are faced with the prospect of losing the little girl they had come to love as their own daughter.

The murder results in the arrival of another Forest Service agent, Melinda Strickland, supposedly sent to investigate her fellow officer's death. But she's bad news, you can tell that straight away when, moments after being introduced to Joe he watches as she barely restrains from kicking her dog in a moment of anger. Dog-kicking proves to be the least of her sins though. She is a self-centered woman with little regard for the safety of others, a dangerous woman when dealing with murderers and harsh climactic conditions.

Joe is dragged into the mess as a potential bloodbath looks a likely result of the standoff between the Sovereigns and the Federal Agents. To start with he is merely a concerned local citizen whose concern is primarily for a peaceful existence, but it becomes personal when April is placed right in the firing line inside the Sovereign camp.

Winterkill starts out at a very relaxed pace and we are allowed to settle in and enjoy a snowed-in Christmas with the Picketts, giving us a chance to feel comfortable with them. We are also given ample opportunity to enjoy the descriptions of the spectacular scenery surrounding them. This soon changes to the mounting tension and frustration levels as Strickland and the feds take over the town. Finally, we are thrust into a dramatic race against time through atrocious conditions ensuring a breathless ending.

It was established in the earlier books of the series that Joe Pickett is a "good" man. He always takes the passive option, often to his own detriment, and is ruled by his conscience. This is carried on in Winterkill, but it tends to restrict his effectiveness as a protagonist, particularly when he comes up against completely morally bankrupt people, as he does here. Enter a new character and eventual ally for Joe, Nate Romanowski. Nate oozes confidence and violence and adds a touch of the maverick for the good guys. He's a perfect foil to Joe's upstanding philosophy and, although we don't learn a lot about his past, every time he entered the scene he was a breath of fresh air.

A murder investigation, a Ruby Ridge style stand-off on Battle Mountain and a desperate bid by a father to protect his daughter makes Winterkill a thrilling book. Add to that Box's ability to paint the Wyoming landscape with wonderful clarity that gave me a strong sense of place and you've got a very enjoyable book.

A Dark Fantastic.......2005-01-20

I hated this book! Or maybe I was just rooting for C.J. to get his stuff together in the third book and have Joe Pickett ready to fly for another twenty years. It's what I expected anyhow. Didn't happen.
The first Joe Pickett story seemed a little tall and convoluted, but the yarn was spun tightly and with dexterity and wit. I couldn't put it down. You knew that C.J. Box and Joe Pickett would be around for a long while. The second book had me looking forward to more Joe Pickett yarns in spite of exploding cows. An audience was building. Word was getting around that C.J. Box could keep you interested. It was time for Pickett to settle down a bit, ease off the fantastics, and start a long career. Then he fell off the mountain.
WINTERKILL opens with a humiliating and extremely unlikely scene of a Forest Supervisor's "nervous breakdown" that contributes nothing substantial to the story. From there, it traverses a litany of extremes. Our humble, heroic game warden in remote Wyoming is forced down a gauntlet of sociopathology, psychopathology, political aberrations, weather extremes, bureaucratic obstruction and cover-up, and the killing of a carefully developed sympathetic character. Then, incredibly, staight-arrow Joe Picket becomes complicit in a felony that will never be discovered.
C.J. Box is a clever, compelling writer, but I don't see how Joe Pickett will ever recover from this dark detour.

Joe Pickett gets a sidekick, maybe.......2004-08-08

This is the third book in the Joe Pickett series, and unconventional is the rule in each of the books. The author manages to make a character with a wife and kids into something of an action hero, complete with gun, pickup truck, and dog, and a series of enemies that attempt everything from annoyance to murder to thwart him.

In the current book, Pickett has a murder on his hands. In this case the murder is complicated by the fact that the victim was a local Federal wildlife officer who just went nuts and killed a whole flock of elk. Pickett arrested him, but he escaped, only to be brutally and strangely killed.

Complicating things are two factors. First, the local authorities have been preempted by a Federal investigator who has taken charge of everything. She's convinced that there's a conspiracy of right-wing nutcases, survivalists who want to kill Federal agents, and of course she's going to hunt them down, damn the consequences. One of her principle suspects is a local mountain man type who has almost no interaction with the rest of society, and raises falcons at his house. That guy turns out to be more than everyone bargained for.

I enjoyed this book a great deal, and would recommend it to anyone who likes the wilderness or detective stories. One proviso: the author isn't a conservative politically (one of his previous books involves the Endangered Species list) but this book deals with the Federal government and bureaucrats rather harshly. Just a warning.

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Excellent fiction with characters of great depth
A good piece of regional fiction
A very good book.
yheeeee haaaaawwww
Squirel on 'drugs'

Winterkill: A Novel
Craig Lesley
Manufacturer: Picador
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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award: a deeply moving and evocative novel of fathers and sons. Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead; his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck, leaving him with his son, Jack, whom he hardly knows, Danny uses the magnificent stories of Red Shirt to guide him toward true fatherhood. Together, Danny and Jack begin to make a life from the dreams of yesterday and the ruins of today's northwestern reservations.

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Excellent fiction with characters of great depth.......2004-10-28

I do not read much current fiction. There is a lot of stuff coming out every day that ranges from mediocre to simply god-awful, and who knows what you are going to get when you pick up a book? I only have so much time available to read books, so it is too valuable to waste on crappy fiction. Therefore I tend to avoid the newer stuff until the chaff has been sifted out.

This was an exception. I stumbled onto "The Reader" while this novel was being featured. It was about two-thirds of the way through the book, and after listening to two episodes, I was hooked and grabbed a copy at the nearest bookstore to read for myself.

It is a touching story that appeals to the reader on many levels. The exploration of the two father-son relationships should ring true for many readers, as should Danny's attempts to come to terms with the fact that he is no longer a young man who can easily withstand the rigors of the rodeo circuit. Danny is a marvelously complex character who intrigues the reader. Lesley is careful not to make Danny seem overly heroic or noble, for that would simply make him into a caricature. Instead, he becomes a character that all too many of us can relate to, regardless of our ethnicity.

For the reviewer that complained that "by the end of the novel nothing in the plot has been solved or put to rest," I feel that that was one of the stronger aspects of the book, and would gently point out that few things in real life wrap up neatly at the end of a 30 or 60-minute episode. This is fiction we are talking about, not fantasy.

Lesley richly deserves the two Pulitzer nominations he has garnered, and perhaps someday it will be a win and not just a nomination. He is one of a handful of contemporary authors whose work I will read without hesitation.

A good piece of regional fiction.......2003-03-25

Being not the biggest fan of fiction, I found myself captivated by "Winterkill" largely due to Lesley's vivid descriptions of my hometown and the land where I grew up.

Lesley may not possess the greatest storytelling ability. His plot does sag and drag and suffers from underdevelopment.

That said, "Winterkill" makes for a fine read due to Lesley's characters: a family of modern day Nez Pearce Indians and his aforementioned depictions of a specific regional space. I have hunted and hiked Red Elk canyon and currently live on the Umatilla River, attend the Round-Up on a yearly basis, drive by the Dalles Indian long house and teach in Pendleton: all settings described in this book. It really is quite fun to read a story taking place in areas I am familiar with.

All in all a fine piece of regional fiction well worth a look.

A very good book........2002-04-16

This book was a very good book. This book was about an Indian Man who was trying to keep the ways of his ancestors and keeping up with the times. He knows many rituals that his father taught him. He has a young sone that afters years of being apart, and his ex wifes death, are together again. This book kept me intersted in what was going to happen next. The setting of this book was also set in the place that I grew up in. It is a very good book and is good for anyone to read.

yheeeee haaaaawwww.......2002-04-16

I feel that this book is writen so well that it could have been a true story. It tells the way of life with out the auther trying to show only one side. It can be a little crude in spots but I feel that it only makes it all the more real. If you have any intrest in indians or rodeo life, you should read this book.

Squirel on 'drugs'.......2002-01-04

Winterkill is a hard book to get into. There are constant flashbacks to the past, which makes the timeline jump around like a squirel on 'drugs'. When Jones dies the audience can see Danny's grief but cannot "feel" it.
By the end of the novel nothing in the plot has been solved or put to rest. The audience ends the book feeling like it has just read a book like "seinfeld", which is a book about nothing.

Euro-American realism versus native authenticity: two novels by Craig Lesley. (Native Americans and Euro-American Writers): An article from: Studies in American Fiction

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Euro-American realism versus native authenticity: two novels by Craig Lesley. (Native Americans and Euro-American Writers): An article from: Studies in American Fiction
J.C. Davies
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From the supplier: Craig Lesley uses the realist fiction, an Euro-American literary form, to present the Native American experience in his 'Winterkill' and 'River Song.' These two fictive translations trace the growth and development of Danny Kachiah, a descendant of the non-treaty Nez Perce Indians. Lesley's focus on individual characters without stereotyping them and his effective use of Native conceptions of the past make his works striking. They do not become sentimental representations of a lost culture but bear testimony to the continuing life of the Native American culture.

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Title: Euro-American realism versus native authenticity: two novels by Craig Lesley. (Native Americans and Euro-American Writers)
Author: J.C. Davies
Publication: Studies in American Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: Northeastern University
Volume: v22 Issue: n2 Page: p233(15)

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Winterkill: A Joe Pickett Novel (Joe Pickett Series, #3)

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Winterkill: A Joe Pickett Novel (Joe Pickett Series, #3)

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"It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him." "Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn: Get off the mountain. But Joe knows this episode is far from over. Somewhere in the dense timber, a killer draws back his bowstring - with Joe as his prey." Joe's pursuit of the killer through the rugged mountains that surround the snow-packed town of Saddlestring takes a horrifying turn when April, his beloved foster daughter, is kidnapped. Now it's personal - and Joe will stop at nothing to get her back.

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Winterkill: A Novel
Craig Lesley
Manufacturer: Picador
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Another winner by Byrne!.......2007-01-10

John Byrne does the best Superman ever!

In the mid-eighties, DC asked John Byrne, who had written a long run of The Fantastic Four, to revamp Superman, who was about fifty years old at the time. In what I would consider typical "Marvel style," Byrne added characterization and scientific explanation to the Superman mythos as he reinvented classic characters and retold their stories. His beautiful art work and excellent story-telling ability make these comics a JOY to read!

I would STRONGLY recommend that you purchase all FOUR volumes of John Byrne's Superman; each one picks up right where the last one left off. When I was finished reading them, I purchased the rest of Byrne's run on the Superman comics; they were that good.

Classic Modern Superman Stories! FIVE STARS!.......2005-05-31

This is as good as mainstream superheroes get! These stories revitalized Superman for a new generation, pumping a new energy into him in ways no one had ever imagined possible. Clark Kent became cool. His personality (and those of the rest of the supporting cast) suddenly got richer, with some subtle flaws showing up much like real people. Clark even got a new, very flawed love interest named Cat Grant!

Other highlights include a team-up with the Green Lantern Corps (at least the part of it that briefly called Earth its home in the eighties), a very cool Indiana Jones-flavored sci-fi story involving an ancient alien race inhabiting the "Host", and best of all -- one of the last EVER appearances of the silver-age Hawkman and Hawkwoman before DC's twisted continuity wiped them from existence!

This is good stuff that should stand alongside Wolfman and Perez's NEW TEEN TITANS, Byrne's FANTASTIC FOUR and Simonson's THOR as the great mainstream superhero comics of the eighties!

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Adventures of Superman, Vol. 3

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There's a bar called "The Captain's Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...fishy or not.

Years before Kirk took command, Captain Christopher Pike guided the Starship Enterprise™ on a five-year mission. Pike's journey took him to many new and unexplored realms, none more strange or perilous than a devastated star system where huge, space-faring lifeforms, vital to the survival of one inhabited star system, wreak havoc on the humanoid inhabitants of the other. Captain Pike must thrust the Enterprise into deadly danger as he fights to save one innocent civilization without dooming the other.

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A conundrum:.......2007-07-27

The overall value of this book is much less than the sum of its parts.
It is a frame story, in which we get a story told by Captain Pike in the first person, at a tavern called "The Captain's Table".

The story told by Pike is marvellous; fast-paced, complex, with excellent characterizations and insightful looks into the first pilot characters. That internal story, I would rate five stars without hesitation.

The story in which that frame is put is also entertaining: Pike telling his story to, and interacting with, Captain Nemo of "20,000 Leagues Beneath The Sea" fame (although he doesn't realize it until very nearly the end of the book) and a female Klingon from far enough up the timeline to know how he meets his end, was enjoyable, and worth four stars in its own right.

The concept of The Captain's Table, a semi-mystical, alternate-dimensional tavern where all captains of all races and times are welcome, and only captains are welcome, and can enjoy the society of their peers without problems of communication or enmity, is an interesting enough concept; "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" meets the galactic federation. If the idea were standing alone, I would rate it four stars.

But the idea does not stand alone; it chooses to be wedded to the "Star Trek" universe, to make it more marketable. And unfortunately, it simply doesn't work in the Star Trek universe. As even my then eight-year-old could see, when told about the idea, and that captains from the long past sailing ship days are there along with starship captains, "Doesn't that violate the prime directive?"

I would love to see the "Captain's Table" concept continued, but with NEW characters and a NEW background universe. Leave Star Trek out of it; some concepts just don't mix. (You might have some really fine, five-star orange juice, and some excellent four-star chocolate milk, but would you really want to mix them?)

If you aren't enough of a Star Trek fan to insist on continuity with the background world, but enjoy the stories simply as stories, you'll find much to like in this book. But if you're even a little bit of a Star Trek purist, you'll have trouble swallowing the basic premise here.

When Sea Meets Sky or Whales in Space...........2006-06-21

The author must have been inspired by Star Trek IV. In this one Pike meets Whales...in space! Without giving away the premise, it's a good novel to end the series with. We get more insight on the character of Captain Pike. His style of command was closer to Picard's than Kirk. Pike was the first one to use the phrase "engage". Only it didn't catch on because actor, Jeffrey Hunter was only in the first pilot.

I hope to see more of Captain Pike with the new novel coming out next month from Pocket Books. I believe it's entitled "Burning Dreams" by Margaret Wander Bonnano.

The chronicles of Pike's 10 year mission have a lot of unanswered questions. A good example would be what happened to his original crew with "number one" and all the others. We never saw them again.

Where Reader Meets Satisfaction.......2003-08-23

Whales in Space sounds like the premise for another, hokey, syruppy Greenpeace diatribe ala Howard Weinstein. Fortunately, Weinstein is nowhere to be found here. Instead, Jerry Oltien presents us with a tale that is interesting and at times even gripping. The space whales turn out to be vicious predators, eating machines that would make the aliens of Aliens proud. When, early on, one literally takes a bite out of the Enterprise, you know you're in for a good time. The Captain Pike here is not entirely consistent with that seen in The Menagerie, and Peter David did a better job with Pike's crew in The Rift than Oltion manages here. Nevertheless, Oltion does a creditable job, giving us a book more than worth any Trek reader's time.

There are two serious flaws here. First, the ending is abrupt, pat, and weak. Typical Star Trek happy ending. The other is that Oltion is forced to work within the god-awful Captain's Table concept. Fortunately, he makes our job easy by alternating chapters between the bar and Pike's story, making skipping blessfully easy.

The Captain's Table as a whole produced one exceptional book, (Janeway's Fireship), three very good books (Kirk/Sulu, Pike, and Peter David's Calhoun) and two down-right stinkers (Picard and Sisko, sadly). With the possible exception of the Kirk/Sulu tale, the books that succeed do so in spite of the Captain's Table concept, not because of it. The concept was a stupid one and the Trek universe is worse off because of it. Discerning Trek readers should still read the four good books, however; simply skip everything about the bar and enjoy the rare first-person perspectives.

A great conclusion to "The Captain's Table" series!.......2002-07-22

I must admit that I personally was not particularly enthralled with the character of Captain Christopher Pike in the TOS episode. This was also the first trek book I'd be reading written by Jerry Oltion. It was with these reservations that I opened this book up to page one. Upon reflection, these trepidations were completely baseless. The author, turned for me, what was an uninteresting character, into an absolute page turner. The idea of the "Titans", space creature's controlled by humanoids, I thought would be less than captivating to say the least. Wrong again. The character interaction's in "The Captain's Table" were extremely well done. I especially liked the reference to the captain of the Titanic being there. Without giving too much of the story away and spoiling it for those who've not read it yet, I'll just read this one. You will not regret it. I hope the author is given the opportunity in the future to bring this character back to life again. Thank you to Jerry Oltion for a great read.

Christopher Pike and a story about "space whales".......2000-12-28

"Where Sea Meets Sky" presents Christopher Pike's first person narrative in the Captain's Table series. If the Jean-Luc Picard story was a pirate tale set in space then this final book in the series is clearly a whaling tale set in space as Pike and his crew deal with the ecological mystery of the titans, a species of creatures nearly the size of the Enterprise that are used by the Aronnians as interstellar dirigibles. Unfortunately for them the creatures have not returned from their annual migration, and Pike is ordered to find out what is going on out there. As Jerry Oltion reveals in his acknowledgments, the idea for the titans came from a Treasurecon III convention panel once upon a time in Billings, Montana, where the group created plausible creatures that might live in space. Oltion had just been waiting for the right opportunity to bring those crazy space whales to light. If you are interested in the creative use of biotechnology, along the lines of what Harry Harrison came up with in his "West of Eden" trilogy, you will find the "science" in this book to be quite interesting. The idea that ecological problems can be solved ecologically is always nice to hear. However, if you are expecting any hint of the nature of the relationship between Pike and his science officer Mr. Spock that compelled the Vulcan to violate General Order 7 and take his former captain back to Talos IV, you are going to be disappointed.

Oltion does the best job of shifting back and forth between Pike's narrative and his conversations with his listeners at the Captain's Table. This is the one book in the series that deals explicitly with the storyteller being aware that he is talking to an audience from other times and places. It is that part of the book more than Pike's actual story that plays off the tragic fate that awaits the former captain of the Enterprise down the road. "Where Sea Meets Sky" scores out as an average book in this series, with the Voyager entry featuring Kathryn Janeway clearly the best book in the series and one of the better Star Trek novels you will ever read. It will not surprise anyone who has been following the series that since the bar called the Captain's Table transcends mere notions of time and space that ultimately we end up with a story cycle, although the truth about the gecko is rather unsatisfying.

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Where Sea Meets the Sky: Us Navy - Cvw-3 - Uss Harry S. Truman
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French fan of US Navy.......2003-10-13

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Every Day Comfort.......2006-02-24

I was given a copy of this book after my husband died, and found it most helpful. The sub-title is misleading, as is not limited to the first 30 days of grief-- actually meant more to me later in the grief process. I have purchased and given away 18 copies. Six years after the death of my husband, I still pick this book up and re-read portions.

Understated title for this excellent book!.......2001-11-19

My mother died in November of 1996 after years of battling MS and cancer. I thought I was ready, but it hit me like a ton of bricks! I was unwillingly admitted to the "Mom's Gone Club", felt isolated and the range of emotions associated with the death of a loved one. I was given a copy of this book, and it touched my heart and soul like no other. It helped keep my focus, in manageable ways, on God and His ultimate comfort and hope. I keep several copies on hand to give to others who are facing grief. Kudos to Mr. Becton for this great work!

Right on!.......1999-12-04

This book really is comforting. I didn't start it until about a month after my husband of only 8 1/2 months passed away, but now I'm reading it a second time around. It's uncanny how timely each day's reading has been. I'm ordering it now for a friend who was recently widowed. I highly recommend it.

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