Off the Grid (Joe Pickett, #16)

by C.J. Box

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. —CORMAC MCCARTHY, Blood Meridian

To live outside the law, you must be honest. —BOB DYLAN, “Absolutely Sweet Marie”

To them, the federal government and the coastal elites were practically foreign enemies.

“This country was built by righteous rebels. Not by corporatists or elitists, and sure as hell not by politicians. If I can help keep that spirit alive, then count me in!”

“I’m Brian Tyrell and this is Keith Volk. We’ve been looking for you for months.”

A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. —DON DELILLO, Libra

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. —EDWARD ABBEY, The Monkey Wrench Gang

Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison, said, ‘I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.’”