Warden Force

<p>A collection of <strong>13 award winning short stories</strong> 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.</p><p>The fifth season contains 13 more exciting adventures:</p><p><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.</p><p><strong>Incident at Killer Cove</strong> - Armed killers on the run tangle with game wardens on the prowl.</p><p><strong>Sooner or Later</strong> - An outlaw falconer outsmarts a new and inexperienced game warden. A year later he’s not so lucky.</p><p><strong>Otter Killers and Uncommon Luck</strong> - Wardens pursue sea-otter-killing commercial abalone divers.</p><p><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.</p><p><strong>Tough Customers</strong> - A game warden and a hostage-taking armed robber nearly destroy a drugstore.</p><p><strong>Bug Pirates</strong> - Trap-raiding lobster thieves meet with misfortune.</p><p><strong>Setliners</strong> - Wardens target long-line catfish poachers.</p><p><strong>A Matter of Preference</strong> - Wardens attempting to ambush season-jumping commercial lobster fishermen get a big surprise.</p><p><strong>Delta Ambush</strong> - Night-prowling canoe-borne wardens stalk a wily and destructive Delta outlaw.</p><p><strong>Rake Man</strong> - A well disguised warden outsmarts lawless abalone pickers.</p><p><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.</p><p><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.</p>