Warden Force

<p><strong>This is not a novel</strong>. This book like the other eight books of the <strong><em>WARDEN FORCE</em></strong> series is a collection of short stories all true the fascinating and often harrowing experiences of real game wardens pursuing armed violators in wild and remote places. TV shows such as <strong><em>WILD JUSTICE</em></strong> (National Geographic) <strong><em>NORTH WOODS LAW</em></strong> (Animal Planet) and <strong><em>LONE STAR LAW</em></strong> (Animal Planet) introduced the public to the real-life adventures of game wardens and conservation officers a public hungry for more. And now for readers the <strong><em>WARDEN FORCE</em></strong> series provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive work in literature on this little known and often dangerous profession.</p><p><br></p><p>Award winning author Terry Hodges was himself a California State Fish and Game warden and supervisor/leader of game wardens for over 30 intense years. He writes with the authority possible only by those who have actually lived the life who have actually packed a badge and a gun on behalf of wildlife and battled all manner of wildlife-destroying outlaws.</p><p><br></p><ol><li><strong>Trash Can Joe</strong> - Wardens pursue an infamous outlaw hunting-guide who uses donuts to illegally bait bears. Meet The Black Robinhood.</li><li><strong>Callous Hearts</strong> - A rogue band of meth-cooking deer poachers meets with misfortune.</li><li><strong>Rascal's Road to Justice</strong> - The world's greatest duck caller as a renowned waterfowl violator bills himself crows that he's too smart to be caught. His education to the contrary soon follows.</li><li><strong>True Remorse</strong> - One of the coldest of the cold cold hearts pays a heavy price for extreme cruelty to a trapped bear.</li><li><strong>Turkeys</strong> - The wardens meet a hardened criminal whose hobbies are turkey hunting and home-invasion robberies.</li><li><strong>A Weekend with Starsky and Hutch.</strong> - A swashbuckling pair of wardens cram a fourth-story roof-to-roof foot chase in old San Francisco and heroic rescues from burning buildings into a single memorable weekend.</li><li><strong>The Natural</strong> - A young woman proves that she was born to be a Fish and Game warden.</li><li><strong>Dirty Harry and Ape Island</strong> - A warden thinks his way out of a jam in this story that features a good-humored Highway Patrol sergeant and an ill-humored monkey.</li><li><strong>Lucky Breaks</strong> - A warden demonstrates his substantial tracking skills to put away an outlaw houndsman who traffics in bear gallbladders.</li><li><strong>Lobster Jake</strong> - An infamous lobster pirate teams with The Muppet a character straight out of a nightmare.</li><li><strong>Cold Cold Hearts</strong> - A California warden at great risk to himself flies to Alaska to help state troopers there deal with a team of highly dangerous cruel and destructive grizzly poachers.</li></ol>