{"product_id":"9780399147487","title":"Open Season (Joe Pickett Series #1)","description":" The debut of a writer hailed by Tony Hillerman as \"a greatstoryteller\" -- the first book in an engaging and gritty mystery series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"C. J. Box has hit the bull's eye his first time up.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Margaret Maron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fabulous debut -- a great crime novel and a great modern-day Western rolled into one. 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. C. J. Box is a keeper.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Lee Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew first mysteries have been welcomed as enthusiastically as \u003ci\u003eOpen Season\u003c\/i\u003e, or with better cause.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC. J. Box knows the wilderness and he knows how to create a wonderfully authentic, vividly alive sense of place. Most of all, he knows how to create a memorable new hero: a man who is full of failings, but strong and honorable. This is mystery writing at its best-and the beginning of a brilliant new career. \u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography:  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. 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025144725744,"sku":"9780399147487","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780399147487_p0.jpg?v=1763698196","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780399147487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}