C J Box
Below Zero
The ninth book in the Joe Pickett series, 2009
For Don Johnson…
And Laurie, always
PARTY ONE
Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me… We are moral creatures, then, in an amoral world. The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die-does not care if it itself grinds to a halt.
– ANNIE DILLARD
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Keystone, South Dakota