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Joe Pickett · Book 1

Open Season

by C. J. Box

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
293
ISBN-13
9781439548899
Type
novel

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About this book

"Open Season" is book 1 in the Joe Pickett series, published in 2001, and runs 293 pages. It's the book that opened the series and introduced Joe, his family, and the Saddlestring country the series is set in. Like the rest of the series, it follows Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett -- stubborn, chronically underpaid, and hopeless at holding his tongue around powerful people -- through the murders, poaching conspiracies, and political corruption that surround the empty country around fictional Saddlestring.

Its place in Joe Pickett

Open Season is book 1 in the Joe Pickett series. It is followed by Savage Run. See the full Joe Pickett reading order.

Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden — a job that keeps landing him in the middle of murders, poaching conspiracies, eco-terrorism, corporate land grabs and political corruption across the vast, empty country around fictional Saddlestring. Joe is stubborn, chronically underpaid, allergic to political games, and hopeless at holding his tongue around powerful people, which gets him fired, reassigned and shot at with regularity — but it also makes him the game warden who actually goes after the people everyone else…

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