Pickett is a one-of-a-kind character, an Old West stand-up guy, and Box’s tales of Pickett’s exploits straddle the line between traditional Western (think Louis L’Amour) and thoroughly modern mystery. C.J. Box has won about every award there is to win: the Edgar, the Macavity, the Anthony, the Gumshoe, the Barry — and with good reason. Like Tony Hillerman before him, he has reinvented a genre and made it his own.