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Open Season
Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+
The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.
Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way—is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. Even after the "outfitter murders," as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police.
As Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. But if word of the existence of this endangered species gets out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural gas company, building an oil pipeline that would bring the company billions of dollars across Wyoming, through the mountains and forests of Twelve Sleep. The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the endangered species and InterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear.
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Reviews
A unique character with a realistic setting.
By Chena Pearl
A great read, the entire book was written by a top notch author. This is my third C.J.Box novel this month
By Chillamech
A great read!
By mountainmutt
Read this because I’m killing time waiting for new Jack Carr book. Well worth the read. Already halfway through second book.
By YoteToothpick
I read this after I watched the series. The series I think combined multiple books. There were parts I liked about the show and the book. Joe became a bit more violent at the end of the book but it was understandable. Interesting hero, different type of detective story, and wonderful setting. I could do without the descriptions of female bodies, but it was written by a man , and it wasn’t often. I do like the child’s prospective, which is unique in this genre.
By RLOMD