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Investigator Cassie Dewell is on the trail of the Lizard King, in the sequel to the Barry Award-winning Badlands .

Investigator Cassie Dewell´s three-year hunt for the serial killer known as ´The Lizard King´ comes to a climax.

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PARADISE VALLEY... THE END OF THE ROAD.

For three years, Chief Investigator Cassandra ´Cassie´ Dewell has been hunting the Lizard King . Twice she has come close to taking him, but this time she surely has him. The trap is set and baited.

What happens next will cost three policemen their lives and Cassie her job. But she can´t give up the hunt - she refuses to believe the charred body they pull from the flames is the Lizard King´s. Tracking two missing fourteen-year-old boys, Cassie - alone - takes to the road. A road from which, quite possibly, there is no return. A road that ends in Paradise Valley.

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´Box is not only an exemplary writer of crime novels;he is also a rancher, hunter and guide to the outback. As this might suggest, his work sports a vibrant response to countryside and nature´ Financial Times .

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Box, C.J.
C.J. Box is the author of nineteen Joe Pickett novels, five stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, and has been a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box has also worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He lives outside Cheyenne with his family. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. cjbox.net @cjboxauthor

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