About this ebook
The WARDEN FORCE series is a collection of short stories, all true adventures of the finest protectors of wildlife in the world. TV shows such as JOE PICKETT (Paramount+), WILD JUSTICE (National Geographic), NORTH WOODS LAW (Animal Planet), LONE STAR LAW (Animal Planet) have introduced the public to this dangerous and little known profession, and left them hungry for more.
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.
Season six 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
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About the author
Award winning author Terry Hodges is the creator of the WARDEN FORCE series, true adventure stories of some of the finest game wardens in the world and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. Having been a tireless and highly experienced warden himself for over three decades, Terry writes with the special authority found only among those who have worn a badge on behalf of wildlife.
For most of his 30-year career, Terry was a California Department of Fish and Game patrol lieutenant, supervising wardens in two Northern California counties. But unlike most supervisors, he was never content behind a desk, much preferring field work and leading his wardens from the front. He was a pilot, flying hundreds of hours, mostly at night, spotting violators from the air and directing his wardens in to make the arrests.
Terry’s all-true stories take place mostly in California, which has more diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of uninhabited wilderness.
Terry has received national writing awards and was three times chosen Writer of the Year by the Outdoor Writers Association of California (OWAC). In addition to his seven books, he has been a regular contributor to the Department of Fish and Game's magazine, OUTDOOR CALIFORNIA. He served four years in the U.S. Coast Guard and received his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University at Sacramento.
In 2006, he was inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame.
