Open Season (Joe Pickett Series #1) by C. J. Box

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  • Pub. Date: July 2001
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    • Pub. Date: July 2001
    • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
    • Format: Hardcover, 1pp

    Synopsis

    The debut of a writer hailed by Tony Hillerman as "a greatstoryteller" -- the first book in an engaging and gritty mystery series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

    "C. J. Box has hit the bull's eye his first time up."
    --Margaret Maron

    "A fabulous debut -- a great crime novel and a great modern-day Western rolled into one. All the elements are here -- a tremendous sense of Wyoming's scenic grandeur, vivid characters, and a high-stakes plot that moves like a rifle bullet. C. J. Box is a keeper."
    --Lee Child

    Few first mysteries have been welcomed as enthusiastically as Open Season, or with better cause.

    "When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive -pow-WHOP-sound that is unmistakable even at tremendous distance." And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with the shot of a rifle, is thrust into a race to save not only an endangered species, but also the life and family he loves.

    C. J. Box knows the wilderness and he knows how to create a wonderfully authentic, vividly alive sense of place. Most of all, he knows how to create a memorable new hero: a man who is full of failings, but strong and honorable. This is mystery writing at its best-and the beginning of a brilliant new career.

    Author Biography: C. J. Box, a native of Wyoming, has worked as a ranch hand, a surveyor, a fishing guide, and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. Box is the president and CEO of Rocky Mountain International Corporation, a company that coordinates marketing for the state tourism departments of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Idaho.

    New York Times

    Box writes as straight as his characters shoot, and he has a stand-up hero to shoulder his passionate concerns about endangered lives and liberties.

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    Great Bookby EricMenk

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    June 19, 2009: Open season was a good read .

    Excellent bookby Anonymous

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    April 08, 2009: for me being from Wyoming and my spending alot of time in the mountains in Wyoming it is easy to follow the character through his adventures. it is a book that is hard to put down once you start reading it.

    I Also Recommend: Savage Run (Joe Pickett Series #2), Winterkill (Joe Pickett Series #3), Trophy Hunt (Joe Pickett Series #4), In Plain Sight (Joe Pickett Series #6), Free Fire (Joe Pickett Series #7).


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