false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255789732m/244102.jpg 244102 3 <B>Penzler Pick, July 2001:</B> Mystery debuts are both exciting and problematic. Exciting, because one may always be about to discover the next Hammett or Chandler (or so the copywriters and publicists would have us believe), and problematic because originality in such a well-grooved genre is becoming more and more at a premium.<p> In advance reviews, <I>Open Season</I> has been pronounced "something special," (<I>Booklist</I>), and it lives up to the billing. It is not C.J. Box's skill at plotting (the story of greedy business interests and local corruption is fine, but familiar), but rather the character of hero Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden, that makes this a series kickoff to remember. Like all the best mystery protagonists, Pickett is stubbornly ready to risk everything when his own personal sense of morality is at stake. But Joe is also a guy who sometimes gets things wrong, and this characteristic of messing up adds a dimension of humanity to the book.<p> C.J. Box makes the town of Twelve Sleep, Wyoming (where Joe and his pregnant wife and his daughters have come to live in a tiny house that could be a lot nicer if Joe only had a job that paid better), come alive to the extent that one can almost smell the crisp mountain air and pine needles. The locals display an impressive array of grudge holding and "don't mess with us" attitudes, but Joe is unwilling to forget he's sworn to uphold and enforce a full battery of laws that many of these neighbors have no intention of obeying.<p> When a well-known poacher, with whom he has humiliatingly tangled, suddenly turns up dead in his own backyard, Joe finds himself at the top of a downward path that, first, will lead to more bodies and then will put his entire family into peril. <I>Open Season</I> doesn't pull its punches, and Box does allow bad things to happen to good people. Read it and find out how skillfully he handles both his hero's complexities and also the ambiguities inherent in a life dedicated to law enforcement. <I>--Otto Penzler</I> 236496 book 2001 Open Season (Joe Pickett #1) total:343|5:63|4:150|3:102|2:20|1:8| 343 1269 517 63 244102 042518546X 9780425185469 325 62 3.70 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255789732m/244102.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244102.Open_Season 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 09 08:07:32 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 08:18:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 244102 042518546X 9780425185469 325 62 3.70 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255789732m/244102.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244102.Open_Season 4 0 false Mon May 04 12:37:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 12:43:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 244102 042518546X 9780425185469 325 62 3.70 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255789732m/244102.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244102.Open_Season 1 0 false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 12:31:54 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 12:40:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 995443 0399147489 9780399147487 16 1 3.70 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180068592m/995443.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/995443.Open_Season 3 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sat Sep 22 14:18:09 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 14:20:15 -0700 2007 C.J. Box
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