Open Season

A Joe Pickett Novel

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

Surprised

Awesome Surprising story line. Enjoyed the family enjoyed the plot. Will listen to stories from this author again

Engaging Story

The story was good, character development was good. I enjoyed this listen and I’m looking forward to
Listening to the next one in the series.

Good book

Watched the series too it follows the book very well!!! Loved them both looking forward to the next book

Love at first listen!

Great series, I’m listening to it in its entirety for the second time! Loved it

loved subject and characters

this book tackles the complexity and failure of the U.S. endangered species efforts. it brings it to life through very lovable and ugly characters and one of the states that often gets romanticized rather than realistically described. I really enjoyed it and learned something too.