I just finished reading Storm Watch, C.J. Box's latest Joe Pickett novel. I like this series, featuring the adventures of a game warden in Wyoming, but in this latest book, Box lets his political leanings show, which I find kind of irritating. The plot revolves around Joe Pickett and his friend Nate Romanowski trying to stop an attempt by the FBI and the "deep state" to instigate a violent incident against the Republican governor, and blame it on a non-existent right-wing extremist group. The purpose of this is to discredit citizens fighting against the injustices heaped upon Wyoming by the federal government. Another of my favorite authors who has sometimes brought politics into his books is Steve Berry, who in one novel made Franklin D. Roosevelt the big villian. I like Box's books, including this one, but could we just leave politics out of mystery and adventure novels that are supposed to be entertaining? Please? Pretty please?
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