His first job is to look after the region around the small town of Twelve Sleep, which involves checking that hunters are not shooting animals at the wrong time of year, or too many of them, or with the wrong guns, etc.
To take the first theme first, Joe is a keen, dedicated young ranger, relatively recently qualified and with a pregnant wife and two young daughters. The two main things going for the novel are the character and situation of Joe Pickett and his family and the author’s evident love for the countryside of Wyoming and its natural wildlife. And, I’m pleased to report, Open Season is very much up to standard. Although I was not particularly interested in reading about a game warden, I’d enjoyed the previous two standalones by C J Box that I’d read, Three Weeks to Say Goodbye and Blue Heaven, both also published in the UK by Corvus. (Some of the books were published briefly in the UK by another publisher in the first decade of this century.)īecause Open Season was available for £1 for a Kindle download as part of Amazon’s UK 12 books of Christmas promotion, I decided to give it a go. Open Season was first published in the US in 2001 but it, and the whole of the series so far, is being published in the UK this year by Corvus – one title a month, apparently. Open Season is the first of a longish series (10 or so) of books about Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.
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