Edited by Jonathan Santlofer. Touchstone, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8475-9 Despite the usual serial-novel pitfalls, C.J. Box, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Charlaine Harris, Val McDermid ...

But that’s far from all that goes on in “Battle Mountain,” the 25th novel in C.J. Box’s crime fiction series featuring Pickett. Corporate and government leaders of America’s military ...