If Joe Pickett needs a rescue while he’s sleuthing around in Afton, Wyoming, in what will be the 27th adventure of New York Times best-selling Wyoming author C.J. Box’s popular series, the community stands ready to swoop in and save the outspoken game warden.

“We have a very robust search and rescue here in Afton,” Visit Afton tourism director Lisa Grimsley told Cowboy State Daily. “We have a lot of volunteers who are on our search and rescue, so maybe, if Joe Pickett goes off to find some remote herd of elk on the mountain and he probably doesn’t need to get rescued …. but yes, we’re on the ready.”

Box told Cowboy State Daily that Afton is one of few places left in Wyoming where Pickett hasn’t yet appeared in one of his many adventures.

After 26 novels, Box has decided it’s high time t

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