C.J. Box is the award-winning author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky. In this boxset, you can enjoy the first ten gripping novels featuring Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett. Open Season introduces Wyoming Game Warden Joe as he investigates his first murder, a poacher found dead in the Picketts' backyard. Joe goes on to investigate sinister and mysterious goings-on in the American West, including the explosive death of an eco-warrior in Savage Run, a friend's suicide and a secondment to a dangerous small town in Out of Range, and a mass murder in Yellowstone.
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'Box is the king of contemporary crime fiction set in the West.' Publishers Weekly 'Box remains square on target throughout.' Booklist 'Box delivers the goods!' Robert Crais
C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction. He was recently awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the National Cowboy Museum as well as the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America in 2017. The novels have been translated into 27 languages.
Box is a Wyoming native and has worked as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife Laurie. They have three daughters. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He served on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. Box lives in Wyoming.