![]() ![]() 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 knows the wilderness and he knows how to create a wonderfully authentic, vividly alive sense of place. "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. ![]() 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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