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Overview

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially on 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.

Editorial Reviews

Boston Globe
...an appealing first novel...
Chicago Tribune
...as a former ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, newspaper reporter and coordinator of tourism [Box] certainly knows the Wyoming territory...
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Denver Post
Box's varn is full of the kind of grittiness a reader can expect from a place where blood and bone are not just the stuff of crime fiction, but of sport and survival, too.
New York Daily News
The unusual setting and flawed characters make for an enlightening, as well as suspenseful, read.
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.
USA Today
...a fascinating, well-scripted debut novel....It's a classic tale of Wild West justice.
Washington Post
Open Season is a very promising debut. Here's hoping the author's restraint and intelligence carry over into future Joe Pickett novels.
Library Journal
The publisher is really excited about this debut mystery, set in Wyoming and featuring game warden Joe Pickett. Events center on a desperate battle to save an endangered species, lifting this work above standard genre fare. Box is president and CEO of Rocky Mountain International Corporation, which manages tourism for several Western states. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Rookie Twelve Sleep County Game Warden Joe Pickett's not much of a shot, and he's been looking like a goat ever since poacher Ote Keeley got the drop on him with his own gun during a routine arrest. But at least he's doing better than Ote, who's turned up dead on the woodpile outside Joe's house. Joe's search in Crazy Woman Creek canyon for the two outfitters and guides Ote was most recently partnered with ends happily, though violently, and suddenly Joe is the man of the hour. Longtime County Sheriff Bud Barnum nervously asks Joe's assurance that he's not going to support neighboring game warden Wacey Hedeman's challenge in the upcoming election; trophy wife Aimee Kensinger, who really likes men in uniforms, invites Joe's family to housesit her palatial digs for three weeks; and wily Vern Dunnegan, Joe's predecessor, wants Joe to join him in pulling down big bucks from InterWest resources, the fat-cat corporation for whose gas pipeline Vern's lining up local support. All this good news is only a front, of course, for a monstrous assault on Joe's livelihood, his integrity, and his family-and incidentally on an inoffensive species long assumed extinct. In response, Joe promises one of the bad guys that "things are going to get real western," and that's exactly what happens in the satisfyingly action-filled climax. A high-country Presumed Innocent that moves like greased lightning. First of a welcome new series, though it's hard to imagine tourism-marketing exec Box topping his debut.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780425185469
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 5/7/2002
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 39,842
  • Series: Joe Pickett Series , #1
  • Product dimensions: 6.56 (w) x 11.06 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

C. J. Box

C. J. Box is the author of five Joe Pickett novels, and has won the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards. He has also been an Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box serves on the board of directors for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    entertaining police procedural

    While still a Wyoming state game warden trainee, Joe Pickett ticketed a man fishing without a license. The man turned out to be the state governor. One week after being assigned to Twelve Sleep County, Joe fines outfitter Ote Keeley for shooting a buck out of season. However, Ote takes Joe¿s gun away and points it at the game warden¿s head before calmly accepting his ticket. Though he continues working hard, Joe has never fully recovered from the Keeley incident.

    A few months later, Keeley reenters Joe¿s life when his daughter finds the outfitter dead at the woodpile near the Pickett home. Next to the corpse is a cooler containing pellets of excrement. Joe and fellow warden Wacey Hedeman assist sheriff Bud Barnum with the investigation. However, soon Joe is in trouble with his superiors, his pregnant wife for jeopardizing his job, and with a killer trying to add a nosy game warden to the list.

    OPEN SEASON is an entertaining police procedural tale that works because the author steps out of the box by insuring his star is not superman. Instead he is just an average Joe struggling with learning his new job, obtaining a decent standard of living for his family, and still trying to do the right thing. The story line is filled with twists and turns so that the audience into thinking the wrong person is the villain. The endangered species issue is well designed within the plot with C.J. Box cleverly laying it out so that the reader can decide on this complex question. Fans will want more Wyoming mysteries starring a guy named Joe.

    Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted June 19, 2009

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    Great Book

    Open season was a good read .

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 20, 2004

    Mundane average cozy mystery

    A cozy mystery set in Wyoming. Bad guys you can see coming a mile away in the beginning of the book. Very young-adult writing. I don't get all the rave reviews from other authors on the cover of this book. Just makes me go, 'Huh?'

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 9, 2012

    Great book.

    I was skeptical at first, but the book took off and kept my interest very well. A little predictable, but worth the read. I'll definitely try the next book in the series.

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  • Posted April 30, 2012

    Very good read

    I tried this book because of the advertising I received for the most recent installment. I am now hooked and will be buying the rest of the series in order. The characters are well portrayed and the settings are very real. It is interesting getting the varying prospectives from each character. A very good outdoors oriented series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 29, 2012

    Draws the reader into the story

    After reading it, I bought the whole series.

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  • Posted April 24, 2012

    An interesting story. Easy to read. If you like mysteries its gentler

    I;m sorry to say that this is not an exciting book. But I did not stop reading it because the writing and story are good. I will read more of his books, definitely.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2012

    A friend gave me book number 7of The Joe Picket Series. At first

    A friend gave me book number 7of The Joe Picket Series. At first I thought that it wouldn't be what I'd like to read, how wrong I was. After finishing the book I gave it to my husband and told him how great it was. When he finished reading it; he agreed with me that we needed to get the rest of them. We could hardly wait for them to arrive. We started at 1 and even read 7 again. Now we await a new one time and again. They are all great, I only wish that they were all in print because he has a couple that are just nook book and we want paper. We both enjoy everything that we have read by C J Box and hope he continues to turn out such high quality reads. I think that if you enjoy reading one, try to get all the Joe Picket Series, they are so worth the time. In a few years I will probably start at number 1 all over again.

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    Posted February 3, 2012

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    Great book i love the entire serise

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 20, 2011

    Not a "can't put down" kinda book but an entertaining, easy read.

    I'm an avid outdoorsman so any book that features hunting and outdoor adventure will get my attention. This book has plenty of outdoor reference and it seems obvious Mr. Box knows what he's talking about, but his writing is simple and fairly predictable. This is my first book with this author and I'll likely try another of his books, but I'm in no hurry.

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  • Posted July 29, 2010

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    Meet Joe Pickett!

    Joe is a Wyoming State Game Warden, and we get to share with him the daily trials and triumphs as he keeps them honest in the Wyoming town of Saddlestring...as well as the nearby Bighorn Mountains...
    Wea also meet his family, wife Marybeth and daughters, Lucy and Sheridan,
    ...I know we will hear more from Sheridan in the future...:)

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  • Posted May 9, 2010

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    VERY Nice Opening to a Series

    Gave the first in the Joe Pickett series a try and was not at all disappointed. Started a little bit slow, but it is not the norm when it comes to thrillers. Pickett is a game warden - not your regular cop, detective, agent nor "jack bauer" type. He's also quite human - makes mistakes, screws up, but has a great moral compass, as his wife calls it. If you feel it is slow starting out, stick with it. The story and action both pick up and the second half of the book flies by. When you think about it - this is how a "first book in the series" should begin .... create and develop some main characters who are going to be around for awhile. Can't wait to start on the next one.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2009

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    Excellent book

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2008

    Amazing Series

    Its a great book and a great start to a great series. All the books in the series including this one are full of suspense and have good plots and each book focuses on a different outdoor issue. These books are a must for someone who likes hunting and fishing and for the outdoor lover.

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