Then comes the night sometime later when a mortally wounded Ote Keeley rushes into the yard of the Pickett family with a plastic tub in his hands. But, he stoically continues doing his job every day to the best of his ability and continues to write tickets for scofflaws, even when it might be more convenient or popular for him to look the other way.
Soon the story of how the bumbling game warden was disarmed is making the rounds and Joe becomes something of a laughingstock. Keeley eventually gives the gun back and Joe writes him a ticket for poaching. The story begins with Joe's sidearm being taken from him by local wilderness outfitter/game poacher Ote Keeley when he confronts Keeley about his poaching, catching him red-handed, literally hands dripping blood, with the carcasses of his out-of-season kills. I know her well because I could easily see seven-year-old Dorothy in her. Seven-year-old Sheridan, particularly, who has an important role to play in this story, is a child after my own heart. We get to know them well and to like them and want them not just to endure but to triumph. Not only Joe but his whole family are lovingly drawn by Box. Being a game warden was what he always wanted to be. He and his family are able to barely scrape by financially on the meager salary of a state employee (Been there, done that!), but Joe is a happy man, because he's living his dream. A Wyoming game warden, Joe is a devoted family man with two young daughters and a pregnant wife when we first meet him.
I'm glad I finally got around to it this week.īox has created an enormously appealing character in Joe Pickett. Although I didn't get a chance to read it in time for the meeting, the discussion of it made me curious and I put it on my to-be-read list. Open Season, the first in Box's Joe Pickett series, was the club's selection for reading in June. Box through my local library's Mystery Book Club.
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