{"id":1794,"date":"2026-04-23T06:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp_stories\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:16:25","slug":"the-crossroads-2026-c-j-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whufu.com\/wpgreen\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"The Crossroads (2026) C.J. Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A neighbor gave me this one, which he had gotten mail-order, so I am actually reading the <em>very latest<\/em> book in a series which hardly ever happens!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It starts right out with the hero of all the Box books, <strong>Joe Pickett<\/strong>, barely surviving an assassination attempt while out on his beat as a State of Wyoming Game Warden in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 12 lays out the scene of the crime: <br>It was on <strong>Antler Creek Road<\/strong>, which is a public road until it hits a three-way fork where Joe was shot. <br>I&#8217;m pretty sure <em>this be the key to the whodunit part of the book<\/em>, namely which fork was Joe gonna head down?  <br>So here are the three forks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>north &#8211; the road to <strong>Double Diamond Ranch<\/strong>, owned by a mega-rich easterner who we meet in Ch 5.  A real jerk.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>middle &#8211; <strong>Bucholz Cattle Company<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>south &#8211; <strong>Mc-Elwee Land and Cattle Ranch<\/strong> &#8211; two felonious sisters, also jerks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We see all three places at least twice:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Joe visits each place in one of the flashback chapters. <br>That&#8217;s where Box shows us that they are suspicious places. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then one of Joe&#8217;s three daughters (<em>three daughters, three suspicious places<\/em> &#8230; get it??) visits each place to get a feel for whether this is why Joe got shot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Ch 3 The bad guys<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 21 Chapter 3 gives us an instant replay of the assassination attempt we just heard about.  We meet <strong>Peddy<\/strong>, a big slob of hitman, and <strong>O&#8217;Brian<\/strong>, a little ferret-faced hitman. They have just done the deed, Peddy was the shooter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They hate each other, but it&#8217;s a job.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The job we learn later was an ambush, they were on both sides of the road to get Joe in a crossfire.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They stashed their stuff higher up the mountains, so when the deed was done they had to hustle back there, get their stuff and clear out!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Up where their stuff is, they look back down and see a guy approaching Joe&#8217;s truck, far, far below. p 25 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peddy takes a few shots at him but it&#8217;s too far and he misses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are left to wonder if this is the guy who called it in, and why didn&#8217;t he stick around to say he was shot at.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Ch 4 At the hospital<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wyoming is so underpopulated that they have take Joe to Montana (Billings) for top-quality ICU care!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 35 We meet <strong>April<\/strong>, the middle daughter, who conveniently is a private detective and happens to be in town with her boss, the formidable-seeming Cassie, who immediately solves the problem of &#8220;who knows what they&#8217;re doing around here??&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading the liner notes, it looks like the arc of this book will be Joe&#8217;s wife and three dauthers will work together to catch the bad guys.  With the introduction of Cassie, we have someone who knows how to run an investigaton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Ch 5 Four weeks before, Joe visits the Double D<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four weeks earlier, Joe is in parked on the side of the mountain in his pick-up <em>eating his breakfast of elk jerky and cashews<\/em> (yum!). He is in high-alert mode because it is <em>opening day of the general elk-hunting season<\/em>. A BFD in this part of Wyoming.  p 44<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is summoned to the Double Diamond to get lectured at by <strong>Michael Thompson<\/strong>, the rich easterner has made himself very powerful in local politics and wants to tell Joe how to vote on something..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actual summoner is his old friend Clay, who he used to respect, before he became Thompson&#8217;s errand boy. The actual point seemed to be that Thompson wanted Joe to lean his way in future land-use hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">The sisters convene<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the current time, we meet all three sisters. They are <strong>Sheridan<\/strong>, April, and <strong>Lucy<\/strong>. They convene at the family home on the banks of the <em>Twelve Sleep River<\/em>, where none of them live anymore. There are a few pages of sisterly bickering until they get down to business. April says that mom thinks they should start with the Mc-Elwees since they are known to do shady stuff. <br>p 65<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheridan says they should also look at the Bucholzs&#8217;. The McElwees are obviously creeps, but the Bucholzs&#8217; are more passive-aggressive, sneaky-type creeps. And we;ve met the Double Diamond guy who is an overbearing super-rich guy. So now we&#8217;ve had an introduction to all three ranches and their individual brands of miscreants.  p 66 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Killers gonna kill<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for the guy they shot at and missed, Peddy and O&#8217;Brian cruise the sagebrush until they find a camper trailer with an elk hunter in it. Because he is a genius, Peddy decides this guy is the one at Joe&#8217;s trailer and kills him and burns the trailer. There&#8217;s your gratuitous violence!  p 72 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peddy gets a call that Joe is NOT dead and they won&#8217;t be paid till he is.  So now their tiny psychotic brains will be focused on going to the Billings hospital and finishing the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Meet the new sheriff of Twelve Sleep County<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 84 Little ole <strong>Twelve Sleep County<\/strong> has had trouble keeping a sheriff which I would know of I&#8217;d read the previous Box books. The new guy is a tall lanky fellow named <strong>Sondergard<\/strong> that the sisters think is kinda hot. I sense romance in the air, the only question is which sister?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 94 Sheridan neets him, then gets in trouble immediately by getting caught searching her dad&#8217;s truck in the Impound garage. She&#8217;s arrested pretty roughly by a deputy &#8211; <strong>Bowkley<\/strong> &#8211; who is also brand new to the force and to the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My spidey-sense tells me that Bowkley is going to turn out to be a Bad Guy, not clear how yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Joe visits the Bucholz Ranch<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 107 Three weeks earlier, Joe took the middle road off Antler Creek Road to tangle with the <strong>Bucholz<\/strong> family. Their land sounds like heaven to me, but the people and the buildings are a mess. Everything is run-down and need paint. When he arrives, they are busy doing &#8220;cattle sorting&#8221; &#8211; where they decide which lucky cows are ready for the meat processing place, which go back to which pasture etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 113 They don&#8217;t even have real cowboys helping, it&#8217;s a couple of known tweekers from the town&#8217;s official seedy bar&#8217;s parking lot.  Even Joe knows about it and them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a mystery airplane flying over their &#8220;badlands&#8221;, and they get real squirrley when Joe asks about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">The bad guys follow the girls<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The genius dudes that shot Joe are so obvious in following the girls to Joe&#8217;s house that the girls are able to trap them a simple &#8220;truck in front, truck behind&#8221; maneuver. The killers have no choice but to actually talk to them since they are boxed in by pickup trucks. The conversation was pretty lame!<br>p 130<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">The hunter that DID saw it all comes in<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheriff Sondergard actually DOES invite Sheridan to sit in on the interview with a guy who says he witnessed the shooting! Maybe because he&#8217;s into fair play, but MOSTLY because he wants to go out with her. Whatever works! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 142 The guy turns out to be kind of cool! <br>He&#8217;s into something called &#8220;pure hunting&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No technology \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>hunt with a bow and arrows, <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>start your fire with a bow drill. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s a Zen thing&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems highly irregular to let Sheridan sit in, but that&#8217;s what they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fellow, <strong>Earl Wright<\/strong>, actually witnesses the bad guys hiding their truck and going to opposite sides of the road to ambush Joe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they shot at him this guy booked out of there to go for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, it wasn&#8217;t clear if this was the guy they shot at later&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 146 It was all going so well until he mentioned the alien spaceship landing next to his camp.  Now they don&#8217;t know whether to believe any of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Joe visits the McElwee Ranch<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 158 Two weeks before:  <br>There are two McElwee sisters, Lisa and Lainie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My tendency would be to cut them some slack they&#8217;re just two women running a ranch, but we learn quickly that they are serious gangsters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The worst example: a state trooper was prepared to testify against them in a contraband case, but wasn&#8217;t able to because he and his lawyer were killed in a fatal accident on I-90. That&#8217;s pretty gangsta, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 162 Joe is there because a hunter has reported shenanigans with a drugged-up bull elk (they have different problems up in Wyoming!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hotter sister hits on Joe so he won&#8217;t notice that the other sister is cleaning up evidence in the yard, but Joe ain&#8217;t falling for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 174 On the way out he checks out a trailer hidden in the aspens. <em>He gets dizzy<\/em>! Probably related to the drugged elk. You experienced readers are probably thinking <em>meth lab<\/em>, but we don&#8217;t know that yet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Peddy has a rough prformance review<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 178 Peddy and O&#8217;Brian meet their local contact on a remote road. <br>Surprise! That contact is <strong>Deputy Bowkley<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we were correct!  He IS a bad one. After a conversation where Peddy reminds us all again what an unpleasant and basically incompetent person he is, Bowkley plants a couple of .22 slugs behind his ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody&#8217;s gonna miss Peddy least of all his partner O&#8217;Brian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chapter ends kind of ominously with Bowkley and O&#8217;Brian heading off to Billings to finish off Joe &#8230; so O&#8217;Brian can collect his fee (which I guess just doubled since he partner is gone?!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Lucy goes to the Double Diamond<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p186 We spend a few pages on sisterly repartee and gettiing to know Lucy a little better. She&#8217;s the younger, new-agey one of the group. She doesn&#8217;t like guns and won&#8217;t take one with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p189 The rich guy who owns the DD is Michael Thompson. He has a pretty dark resume. Chinese Communist Party ties, a serial philander with the women under him (so to speak).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 196 The security guy for the ranch flags her down, he&#8217;s an old friend of the family, and he probably convinced Thompson to talk to her.  She meets the trophy wife, then meets the man himself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a pretty edgy conversation! Lucy is the psychic one remember. <br>She thinks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 202  <em>You are scrambling to stay out of prison at the moment!<\/em>  <em>Maybe State, maybe Fed, but you&#8217;ll end up in one of them!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">April gets to visit the McElwees<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 205 There is some weirdness off the road in the way there.  There are three hispanic guys driving cattle OUT of a salt lick in the side of the mountain by shooting their pistols. This makes no sense, but we leave it for the moment and she proceeds on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April has a nice flashback to high school, to a 6-3 &#8220;gender-fluid&#8221; fellow names <strong>Pablo<\/strong> whose dad was married to one of the sisters for a while. Not sore there was a point except to give background on how weird they are.  p 209<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, there IS a connection! There&#8217;s a huge picture of Lisa McEllwee naked and hot in their living room, and it was painted by Pablo&#8217;s dad before he was kicked out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 217 Sister Lainie comes back and is pissed of about blabbing to April. The fully-armed hispanic guys come back and it gets tense, but April gets out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Sheridan visits the Bucholz Cattle Company<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheridan is approaching the Buchoz ranch, she pulls off the road and watches three drilling trucks go by.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She gets it into her head to somehow come into the ranch from the back way to avoid the trucks.  p 225 <br>She&#8217;s the intuitive one that gets &#8220;feelings&#8221; remember&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 228 She does this &#8230; navigating up creek beds in 4-WD and such until she comes on a set of derelict cabins &#8230; one of which is not so derelict!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a &#8220;tall, gaunt man&#8221; with an electronic collar and who is chained to the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It gets a little weird for a minute, but she uses her trusty pepper spray to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">How&#8217;s everybody doing?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p 241 Marybeth gets a good report on Joe &#8211; yay!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 244 She reports back to the girls.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 246 Each girl takes a quick shot at why her ranch is the guilty one!  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 248 Bowkley and O&#8217;Brian are driving to Billings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 257 Bowkley gratuitiously kills a guy on the Crow Reservatoin to test the odd contraption theit unnamed boss gave then to kill Joe with a fentanyl overdose.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 259 The sisters and the sheriff have a big pow-wow to discuss their candidates for Joe&#8217;s attempted murder.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p 261 Lucy say&#8217;s it&#8217;s the really rich guy.  The sheriff is not too impressed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 263 April has the McElwees.  The sheriff agrees they&#8217;re bad, but the feds want to sit on them.  The sheriff&#8217;s stock goes WAY down in the room.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sheridan reports on weird Uncle Hank in his electric collar.  Sheriff still thinks they&#8217;re &#8220;nice folks&#8221;.  He ain&#8217;t dating Sheridan any time soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Meanwhile, back at the hospital<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 270 Joe&#8217;s been in a two person room.  The nurse notices that his vitals monitor is out, she stalks out, and the easiest fix turns out to be to move Joe to a new room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 271 We&#8217;re taking a quick time out for a line I thought was hilarious, and which I frankly didn&#8217;t know CJ Box had in him:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a701c8f7 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:2px;border-top-left-radius:15px;border-top-right-radius:15px;border-bottom-left-radius:15px;border-bottom-right-radius:15px;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0.5rem;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-bottom:0.5rem;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The roommate is in a coma from a car accident, but every now and then wakes up ans says something lewd to Marybeth, for example:<em>  &#8220;<em>Hey sweetheart, why don&#8217;t you come over here and sit on my face?<\/em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did not see that coming!  I was picturing Marybeth all wrong it seems! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p 272 Back to the story. MB falls asleep in Joe&#8217;s new room, then is awakened by a commotion later. The face-sitting guy suddenly dies from a weird seizure. Joe has dodged the bullet yet again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Flashback to Joe two days before<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a blizzard, he catches up on his email.  He&#8217;s gotta write letters to all three of the suspected ranches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p 277 Even Joe is catching on the the drugged out moose might be fentanyl related.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>p279 There&#8217;s a very interesting digressing on the changing fentanyl market.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We have a (Trump-induced?) cold war with China, so now it&#8217;s easier to ship the ingredienst and make it here.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are appaerntly thousands of &#8220;militry age&#8221; young Chinesemen infiltrated onto the country.  Who knew?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 287 Joe goes to the airport and learns what the helicopter with the weird extension was about.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It turns out it&#8217;s right there in a hangar and he gtes to look at it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 291 There&#8217;s 40 pages left in the book, it looks like this last flashback is where we&#8217;re be given all the pieces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>p 293 We are still in the blizzard, and Joe visits the local coffee shop with the crew of older women that know everything about everybody hang out.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mostly they rehash the bad traits of each ranch.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"border-top-width:2px\">Joe wakes up!  (<em>spoiler, all is revealed<\/em>)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is almost over, time to reveal a few things to wrap things up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Where was Joe headed the morning he was shot?\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To the Bucholz Ranch to ask about the old guy locked in a cabin.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The girls are at Joe&#8217;s house burning up the internet researching all the stuff they&#8217;ve learned.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>There&#8217;s a lot of noise about fentanyl and such, but the big news is a very large and very profitable vein of rare earth mminerals at the edge of the Bucholz property.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the same time, the bad guys, Bowkley and O&#8217;Brian are driving back from (they think) killing Joe, and Bowkley tells O&#8217;Brian he&#8217;s got to kill all three girls tonight also.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">O&#8217;Brian does get into the house and even into Sheridan&#8217;s room, but Lucy blows him away with a handgun.  Nice touch that is was new-agey Lucy, the one that hates guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their buddy Nate was watching over them from outside, and does some pretty serious damage to Bowkley to get him to rat out Bucholz as the mastermind bad guy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s the book!   I really enjoyed it!  I did not have a strong impression of the Box books from the one I read back in Reno, but I will be working my way through them after this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor gave me this one, which he had gotten mail-order, so I am actually reading the very latest book in a series which hardly ever happens! 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