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Open Season (Joe Pickett series)

ISBN: 0399147489

Title: Open Season (Joe Pickett series)

Author: C. J. Box

KDL Description:

As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.

Amazon Description:

The debut of a writer hailed by Tony Hillerman as “a great storyteller” — 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.