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Open Season: 1 (Joe Pickett Novel) Paperback – 31 May 2016

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Don't miss the Spectrum Originals series JOE PICKETT!

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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352 pages
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English
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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31 May 2016
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10.8 x 2.36 x 19.05 cm
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0399576606
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978-0399576607
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Praise for Open Season

"Meet Joe Pickett: He's going to be a mystery star."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"C. J. Box is a great storyteller."--Tony Hillerman

"A great crime novel."--Lee Child

"A muscular first novel...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."--The New York Times Book Review

"Intriguing, with a forest setting so treacherous it makes Nevada Barr's locales look positively comfy, with a motive for murder that is as unique as any in modern fiction. Pickett is a refreshingly human and befuddled hero...But it's Box's offbeat way of telling the story that puts it on the best of the year track."--Los Angeles Times

"C.J. Box might represent an endangered species himself: a first novelist who is getting his due...Box's book has it all--suspenseful plot, magnificent scenery and a flawed male hero who is tough but truly connected to his family...profoundly memorable."--Boston Herald

"Every few years a first novel appears that immediately sets itself apart from the crowd. As readers, we feel that special shock of recognition that announces, 'Here is something special.' Taking dead aim with his first sentence...Box remains square on target throughout this nearly word-perfect debut...Best of all, the soft-spoken Joe Pickett is a Gary Cooper for our time."--Booklist (starred review)

"A high-country Presumed Innocent that moves like greased lightning."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Pickett [is] an engaging change from the fast-driving, trigger-happy male heroes of so many contemporary crime novels."--Washington Post Book World

About the Author

C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett series, five stand-alone novels, and the story collection Shots Fired. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and two Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38 and a French Elle magazine literary award. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He and his wife Laurie split their time between their home and ranch in Wyoming.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ G.P. Putnam's Sons; Premium edition (31 May 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0399576606
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399576607
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.8 x 2.36 x 19.05 cm

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C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over twenty-two novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award (twice), the Western Heritage Award for Literature, and 2017 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Western. The novels have been translated into 27 languages. Open Season, Blue Heaven, Nowhere To Run, and The Highway have been optioned for film and television. Millions of copies of his novels have been sold in the U.S. alone.

Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he owned an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. In 2008, Box was awarded the "BIG WYO" Award from the state tourism industry. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo and is currently serving on the Wyoming Tourism Board. He lives in Wyoming.

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L. Phillips

Jack Reacher meets Lone Wolf McQuade

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2017

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Open Season is the first of C.J.Box's "Joe Pickett" series, and the second that I've read - having been attracted to Free Fire after reading an article on the real-life virtues of the plot. If you like crime thrillers, a taste of the old west, and nature - then the Joe Pickett books are for you!

In Open Season, Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden preparing for the start of antelope season. As he prepares pancakes for his pregnant wife and two daughters, his eldest tells him of the monster she saw in the yard during the night. In an attempt to show her nothing is there, Joe discovers the dead body of a shady outfitter and an empty cooler that clearly contained an animal of some kind.

One murder soon becomes three, and Joe finds himself in the firing line and under investigation for a prior mistake. As talks of the endangered species act, a profitable gas pipeline, and the local sheriff election somehow become linked to Joe's fate, he realises time, and nobody else is on his side.

This being g the second Joe Pickett book I've read this year, it's safe to say I like them. They are fast paced, seeped in the crime genre, and beautifully describe the wonderful Wyoming landscape. That said, I am not a huge fan of Joe himself. He's stubborn, old-fashioned, and a little dated as a character.

That said, I loved Sheridan, his eldest daughter. You really feel her plight and emotional turmoil. And I've never wanted the villain to get it so badly as a result.

A great read only slightly marred by out-of-date characterisation and the odd cliche.

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BookieWookie

Joe Pickett - How Did I Miss This!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2018

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Ok, so I’m taking being late to the party to a whole new level here, but I’ve just discovered the Joe Pickett series by C.J. Box – just as he’s about to release book number 18!! What attracted me to this series was a review for the forthcoming release (The Disappeared) by fellow Book Blogger/Reviewer – The Real Book Spy. There was something about the review that made my ears prick up and think I was going to like the series. So, after much humming and hawing, I decided to head back to where it all began, Book #1 – Open Season.

The book is set in the mountains of Wyoming, where we meet Game Warden Joe Picket and his family. I’m a big fan of books set in the great outdoors of the USA, being a long time James Lee Burke fan and following John Sandford’s ‘Virgil Flowers’ as he heads into the country, so it was no surprise to me that I liked this particular setting. I guess what did surprise me was just how much I liked it! Whether it was that sense of escapism (I think I’ve always wanted to live in a cabin by the woods), or it was the way that Box wrote about Picket and his young family, it just seemed to resonate with me on some level.

The story itself was an interesting one based around a number of murdered outfitters (experienced hunter type people, to the UK city folks among us) and the discovery of a long thought extinct animal. In all honesty, I Just found the description of the people, land, and way of life absolutely fascinating – to the extent the story almost played second fiddle to the characters, with the location being a character in its own right. That said, it was a well put together tale that concluded with a heart in mouth showdown with Joe and the bad guy. The only negative I will give, and it’s a small one, is that I had figured things out pretty quickly on who the main antagonist was – but I suspect that was down to a fairly small number of potential bad guys more than my detective skills!

As I was making my way through the book, I knew it was a series and a family that I just had to get to know better. I imagine it’s a hard thing for a writer to have the reader genuinely care about a family of characters so much in the first book in a series, but Box has somehow managed that with some ease on this one. The epilogue was one of the longer ones I have read, and it gave the reader the chance to get to see how Joe’s family tried to settle back to normality and put all past events behind them, which was a fantastic way to round up a superb character driven story.

It’s not often I finish a book and have to fight the urge to just dive straight into the next one in the series, but with this one, I had to battle hard. I’m so happy I decided to start at book 1 in this series as now I have 17 (yes…SEVENTEEN) books left to devour!!

Brilliant, just loved it!!

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Brian E. Smith

It must be me.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 April 2019

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I have read the first seven books in the Joe Pickett series, hoping I could find the "magic" that gets him five star reviews, but I have failed.
Joe Pickett is a boring and quite inept character.The plots are at best fanciful, at worse the result of a poor imagination and little research.
Definitely not books you are reluctant to put down , I found myself skip reading to find some interesting event or dialogue, that din't work either.

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Grr (tiger)

An ordinary Joe under extraordinary pressure

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2015

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Joe Pickett is a game warden in Wyoming earning a small salary and living in very modest job related accommodation. He is married with two young children and another on the way. All this is threatened when a murder victim visits and inconsiderately dies on his property. Oh! And if that wasn’t enough, his mother-in-law is one of those that every man dreads.

Joe is a bit accident prone and therefore something of an antihero. Well not quite. When his family is threatened, he can get quite spikey. That is except in respect of his mother-in-law, whom nobody dares to threaten anyway, least of all Joe. The narration is fluent and the plot very clear if a little slack, particularly when everything begins to unravel. But then of course that is usually the difficult part.

The book raises social issues which lift it a little above the conventional crime/thriller genre. It probably won’t appeal to the “crash-bang-wallop” aficionados, but there are moments which are quite chilling. It is exceptionally good for a first effort, and augurs well for Joe’s further adventures. It will be surprising if he hasn’t toughened up after his experiences in this one.

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