Game Wars - Softcover

Reisner, Marc

4.21

58 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0436410532 ISBN 13: 9780436410536

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 1993

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In this true story the author gives a first-hand account of how undercover game wardens operate. He focuses on Dave Hall, a special agent for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, who operates from New Orleans but whose beat stretches as far as Alaska and its ivory poachers.

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If environmentalists ever get around to building a hall of fame, Dave Hall ought to be up for early induction. Hall, the hero of Game Wars, is the Dirty Harry of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service whose goal in life is to stop poachers dead in their tracks and who doesn't mind blowing away a few bad guys to do it. (Mind you, we're not talking about the backwoods denizen who bags a deer off-season now and again, but an organized underground economy that may soon drive the alligator extinct for its skin, the walrus extinct for its ivory.) Marc Reisner's account of Hall's dangerous exploits is as thrilling, and infinitely more satisfying on those rare occasions when the hero wins, than any movie chase scene.

From Library Journal:

Poaching is a term usually associated with illicit hunting and trade of wild animals in Third World countries. In this page-turner of a book, Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert ( LJ 8/86), introduces readers to the lucrative American black market in wildlife contraband and to the undercover Fish and Wildlife Service agents who are battling poachers. He dogs the heels of special agent Dave Hall into the Louisiana swamps where Hall infiltrates an alligator smuggling ring. He also describes Hall's attempt to bring down the Alaskan ivory trade and reveals the magnitude of fish poaching in the South. Reisner concludes with a history of the abuse of American wildlife resources that makes one wonder how it could have been allowed to happen. This lively, fast-paced tale of corruption, greed, and poaching at home is highly recommended for public library collections.
- Edell Marie Peters, Brookfield P.L., Wis.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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