Box is the president and CEO of Rocky Mountain International Corporation, a company that coordinates marketing for the state tourism departments of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Idaho. A Joe Pickett novel from 1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J.

Box, a native of Wyoming, has worked as a ranch hand, a surveyor, a fishing guide, and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. This is mystery writing at its best-and the beginning of a brilliant new career. Most of all, he knows how to create a memorable new hero: a man who is full of failings, but strong and honorable. Box 3.9 (148) Paperback (Tall Rack Paperback) 9.99 Paperback 9.99 eBook 9.99 Audiobook 0.

Box knows the wilderness and he knows how to create a wonderfully authentic, vividly alive sense of place. Box, Paperback Barnes & Noble Free Shipping on Orders of 40 or More Home Books Add to Wishlist Open Season (Joe Pickett Series 1) by C. 'When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive -pow-WHOP-sound that is unmistakable even at tremendous distance.' And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with the shot of a rifle, is thrust into a race to save not only an endangered species, but also the life and family he loves. Open Season is the first of C.J. Box is a keeper.'-Lee Child Few first mysteries have been welcomed as enthusiastically as Open Season, or with better cause. All the elements are here - a tremendous sense of Wyoming's scenic grandeur, vivid characters, and a high-stakes plot that moves like a rifle bullet. Box has hit the bull's eye his first time up.' -Margaret Maron 'A fabulous debut - a great crime novel and a great modern-day Western rolled into one. The debut of a writer hailed by Tony Hillerman as 'a great story teller' - the first book in an engaging and gritty mystery series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.

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