Warden Force

Ordeal at Skull Canyon and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 63-75

von Terry Hodges

174 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A collection of 13 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California Fish and Game Wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.The sixth season contains 13 more exciting adventures:Scum of the Delta - A lone warden faces three armed and dangerous outlaws at night on a lonely Delta island.Night of the Beach Walkers - Wardens set a trap for renegade abalone pickers on an Island off the California coast.The High Cost of Greed - A massive overlimit of snow geese equals bad news for greedy poachers.The Best Medicine - A young boy provides a cure for racial tension.Ordeal at Skull Canyon - A dark night and a mistake on an offshore island nearly proves fatal for a young warden.Hoffman’s Lucky Shot - A lucky break spares the evil life of a dangerous poacher.Moseley’s Reward - A well timed tip sets wardens on the trail of outlaw mountain lion trappers.Herpie and the Snake Lady - Wardens raid an absolute house of horrors and target lawless reptile dealers.Road Hunter - A road-hunting pheasant poacher leads a clever warden to pull off the most spectacular arrest of his career.Harold’s Toughest Race - A tough, marathon-running warden amazes everyone by running down an escaping would-be rapist.Fatal Flaw - One dark mountain night, a lone warden, at great personal risk, bluffs a lawless band of brush-cutters to arrest a deer poacher and a wanted felon.Tuffy’s Sweet Moment - An epic foot chase ends in near death for a fleeing violator.An Ending of Sorts - A warden-turned-writer, one winter’s evening, reflects on his career and that of his long-dead mentor

• Reihe: Warden Force
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziale Dienste und Sozialwesen, Kriminologie Sozialwesen, Sozialpolitik und soziale Dienste Notfalldienste Polizei und Sicherheitsdienste
• ISBN: 9781629671055
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2017
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Tharen Hodges