CJ Box

I thought Out of Range was good. I thought i read the first one but i don't remember it.

I only read Open Season which is his first book

It was enjoyable

I've read all the Joe Picket series, and I would say the first fifteen were his best. Entertaining reads, but nothing earthshattering.

Why start reading a series with the 24th book?

Another series I would recommend is Craig Johnson's Longmire series. Also set in Wyoming, but he's a sheriff..

If you find that you like the game warden genre, Paul Doiron writes a series set in Maine featuring game warden Mitch Bowditch. I like it slightly better than the Pickett series.

I’ve read (listened to) several CJ Box books but not the Joe Pickett ones. They were very good.

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If you've seen the Yellowstone TV series, that was based on another CJ Box series.

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I bet Taylor Sheridan would disagree with this.

Newest one set to release in February I believe. I have it on pre-order on Amazon

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He is entertaining but you have to check reality at the door. That much stuff just doesn't happen to a game warden in rural Wyoming

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True, it's been a while since I read them but he could have made an effort to make other stuff in the books believable. Another poster mentioned the long range handgun stuff, there was a lot of other things in there where if you know anything about guns or hunting you were rolling your eyes when you came across it in the book.

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But but its a .50 caliber hand cannon

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I think it was a .454 casull. I remember rolling my eyes when ole Nate said he carried it because it was more powerful than rifles and had as much range as a sniper rifle or something like that. It went right through the engine block of a Tahoe at 400 yards!