• Open Season

  • A Joe Pickett Novel
  • By: C. J. Box
  • Narrated by: David Chandler
  • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (9,048 ratings)

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Open Season

By: C. J. Box
Narrated by: David Chandler
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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.

©2001 C.J. Box (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

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Box's Open Season

CJ Box did it again. A great story to get lost in. I can't wait to hear the next Joe Pickett adventure.

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Great story - had zero expectation

A book totally out of my regular books but totally worth driving into. Read it.

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My new hero

How is the kind of guy we all wish we could be, living the life many of us have dreamed of.......

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Good

Good story, well performed, too slow for my taste. Stuck with it till the end, but if I wasn't in the car without another book to listen to I probably would have given up.

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good but some issues

overall enjoyed book. lead character was beyond slow in several issues. it bothered me many times. how could he have worked with people and not recognized things that other people like his wife clearly saw. How did he, and the Sheriff just ignore a rather obvious execution. I do plan on reading a few more books, but he better not be this dense for long.

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The weasels

This has been a wonderful time reading and being in grossed with the storytelling. It was like a wonderful movie that you just didn’t want to end. I recommend it to everyone that cares about love,trust and family ,learning together the true meaning of family.

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murder mystery in the west

This book is about a game warden and his family as they get caught up in a scary adventure.

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Loved it!

I Loved it. I can't wait to read the next one! Disappointed the series will end eventually.

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Good story, nice action. The author sends to be.

the author seems to be very knowledgeable about the events of which he writes. good story with some good action

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Lucky to Survive

Slow start, but good ending. Seem to be a lot of people in this story, that were not very bright.

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