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by: C. J. Box
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425185469
ISBN: 042518546X
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: May 07, 2002
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: May 07, 2002
Sales Rank: 27496
Studio: Berkley
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Product Description:
Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden who, with the shot of a rifle, is thrust into a race to save not only an endangered species, but to unravel a mystery that threatens the life and the family he loves.
Amazon.com Review:
Penzler Pick, July 2001: Mystery debuts are both exciting and problematic. Exciting, because one may always be about to discover the next Hammett or Chandler (or so the copywriters and publicists would have us believe), and problematic because originality in such a well-grooved genre is becoming more and more at a premium.
In advance reviews, Open Season has been pronounced 'something special,' (Booklist), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J. Box's skill at plotting (the story of greedy business interests and local corruption is fine, but familiar), but rather the character of hero Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden, that makes this a series kickoff to remember. Like all the best mystery protagonists, Pickett is stubbornly ready to risk everything when his own personal sense of morality is at stake. But Joe is also a guy who sometimes gets things wrong, and this characteristic of messing up adds a dimension of humanity to the book.
C.J. Box makes the town of Twelve Sleep, Wyoming (where Joe and his pregnant wife and his daughters have come to live in a tiny house that could be a lot nicer if Joe only had a job that paid better), come alive to the extent that one can almost smell the crisp mountain air and pine needles. The locals display an impressive array of grudge holding and 'don't mess with us' attitudes, but Joe is unwilling to forget he's sworn to uphold and enforce a full battery of laws that many of these neighbors have no intention of obeying.
When a well-known poacher, with whom he has humiliatingly tangled, suddenly turns up dead in his own backyard, Joe finds himself at the top of a downward path that, first, will lead to more bodies and then will put his entire family into peril. Open Season doesn't pull its punches, and Box does allow bad things to happen to good people. Read it and find out how skillfully he handles both his hero's complexities and also the ambiguities inherent in a life dedicated to law enforcement. --Otto Penzler
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Open Season
A great book, good suspense. Things don't go where you think they should, and it makes for a great read.
Rating:  - Good debut novel
This was the debut novel by the author, and is the first novel in the series about Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. It is a well written novel, although the plot becomes a little predictable. It gives a nice background picture of the Bighorn Mountain country.
As to the plot, friendship is sometimes misplaced. Et tu, Brute - those of us who have scars from knives in the back are aware that you have to be careful about whom you trust. Sometimes events spin out of control.
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Rating: - In the Great Mystery Tradition--of being a mystery not a thriller
Box brings Wyoming and his world to life. He has that touch of Dick Francis, Rex Stout, and the master, Agatha Christie, to deliver burnished jewels to the reader.
One of the best portrayals of a 13 year old girl ever. Right square in the middle of a wonderful mystery.
Gold nuggets every where. You'll see why America longs for the back country with lesser paying jobs that deliver wonderful daily life. And then the mystery!
Rating: - New series for me
I really enjoyed this book, I had been meaning to read this series for a long time. I can only hope they get better with each book and look forward to reading them all.
Rating: - Joe Pickett novel- Outstanding!
I had the chance to read the first Joe Pickett novel by CJ Box while on an RV trip out west traveling through the very country side depicted in the novel. Open Season, the first one in the series was great. My brother and I both finished it in two days. We then bought all the others in the series as well. Mr. Box has a very good series going here and we hope there are more Joe Pickett novels to come.
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