Warden Force

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is not a novel</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. This book like the other eight books of the </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>WARDEN FORCE</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> 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 </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>JOE PICKETT </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>(Spectrum/Paramount+) </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>WILD JUSTICE</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (National Geographic) </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>NORTH WOODS LAW</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (Animal Planet) and </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>LONE STAR LAW</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (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 </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>WARDEN FORCE</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> series provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive work in literature on this little known and often dangerous profession.</span></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><p>The fifth season contains 13 more exciting adventures:</p><ol><li><strong>Uncatchable Chick Feathers</strong> - A clever deer-poaching archer widely considered to be too smart to catch meets an old-time game warden who disagrees.</li><li><strong>Incident at Killer Cove</strong> - Armed killers on the run tangle with game wardens on the prowl.</li><li><strong>Sooner or Later</strong> - An outlaw falconer outsmarts a new and inexperienced game warden. A year later he's not so lucky.</li><li><strong>Otter Killers and Uncommon Luck</strong> - Wardens pursue sea-otter-killing commercial abalone divers.</li><li><strong>Leo's Demise</strong> - One man dies before wardens deal with an African lion a grown pet gone rogue in the suburbs of Los Angeles.</li><li><strong>Tough Customers</strong> - A game warden and a hostage-taking armed robber nearly destroy a drugstore.</li><li><strong>Bug Pirates</strong> - Trap-raiding lobster thieves meet with misfortune.</li><li><strong>Setliners</strong> - Wardens target long-line catfish poachers.</li><li><strong>A Matter of Preference</strong> - Wardens attempting to ambush season-jumping commercial lobster fishermen get a big surprise.</li><li><strong>Delta Ambush</strong> - Night-prowling canoe-borne wardens stalk a wily and destructive Delta outlaw.</li><li><strong>Rake Man</strong> - A well disguised warden outsmarts lawless abalone pickers.</li><li><strong>The Honest to God Truth</strong> - An honest mistake and a white-knuckle midnight vehicle tail through Long Beach yields a surprise and an important arrest.</li><li><strong>Raid of the Stockton Airborne</strong> - Did they or didn't they? Wardens from the sky? A day for mass-killing duck poachers does not end well.</li></ol>