Open Season
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 293
- ISBN-13
- 9781439548899
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Open Season
Open Season is a novel by C. J. Box. Readers have had it since 2001. It runs to 293 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Open Season. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781439548899 to find the main one.
Open Season is book 1 of 28 in the Joe Pickett series. The series has 27 published books, while 1 more has an announced date. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
The Crossroads is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 24 February 2026. Meanwhile, The Missing comes next, with an announced date of 23 February 2027.
Additionally, C. J. Box writes Cassie Dewell as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, The Crossroads is the latest published C. J. Box book on file, from 24 February 2026. The next announced C. J. Box release is due on 23 February 2027, so there is still more to come.
About C. J. Box
C. J. Box is an American crime novelist best known for the Joe Pickett series, following a Wyoming game warden whose investigations into wildlife crimes routinely escalate into far larger conspiracies involving corruption, environmental exploitation, and violence in the rural West. See every C. J. Box book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781439548899
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781417661114
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399576614