Open Season Free Audiobook Download by C. J. Box

When Wyoming game warden, Joe Pickett, starts receiving cryptic messages on his voice mail that are then delivered to the local paper, he begins to unravel a long-hidden conspiracy.

'Open Season' is a crime-thriller novel written by C.J. Box and the first in his Joe Pickett series. Set in rural Wyoming, the story follows Joe Pickett as he attempts to solve a murder that feels like it has all the pieces until they don't fit together. A local game warden Joe Pickett becomes fascinated with is found dead with a shotgun wound to his head and left on the slopes of Yellowstone National Park. Detectives have few leads, but Joe suspects that the death could be related to poaching which has been going on for years in this area.

This book is set in the southwestern United States during the early years of the 20th century and centers on a ranch hand, Joe Pickett. The book follows Joe's adventures as he tracks down poachers in the wilderness, but it also reveals his personal life. Joe's wife becomes pregnant before they marry and she goes into labor six weeks before her due date. They travel to Colorado to find a doctor but are forced to return home when bad weather prevents them from getting help. Near the end of the story, Joe gets into a fight with a rancher over poaching charges.

“Dave,” said Laura, “please stop. Let me tell you something. This is the kind of thing that people die for. We’re talking about a story of the old west. A man who literally fights his own demons, on a high stakes game with no rules and no mercy. His quest will take him from the depths of despair to the heights of hope and back again, in a global race where there are no winners — just victors. And I think you should write it.”

There’s something about a mystery that makes everyone want to read it. Just ask C. J. Box, who is the author of the best-selling series of novels known as the “Prey” novels. The first novel in the series, Open Season, was published in 2008 and quickly became a best-seller and has been on the New York Times list for more than 200 weeks in total.

Open Season is a suspenseful novel about a high stakes game of vigilante justice in rural North Dakota. When retired law enforcement officer Joe Leaphorn and FBI agent Jim Chee are asked to investigate the murder of a young Indian boy, they find themselves tracking a malevolent predator who has preyed upon Native American families for decades. The story is told primarily through the eyes of Joe Leaphorn, as he narrates what happened in his own words as well as excerpts from interviews with local law enforcement and victims' family members.