Former wildlife agent writes about bringing down outlaw Alaska game guides

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"It begins in a tacky bar. Sheep and elk heads peer down from smoky walls. A woman snuggles close to a man who isn't her husband. Suddenly, a strapping hulk of a dude named Moose James saunters over and ...


From this point, Lucinda Delaney Schroeder's new book, "A Hunt for Justice," leads readers through illegal game hunts and rough "spike camps" with an undercover agent trying to pull herself off as "Jayne Dyer"; an unscrupulous guide who claims he'll kill any officer who infiltrates his camp; and an informant with a drinking problem and loose tongue.

And the best part? It's all true.

Schroeder, a former special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, recaptures a 1992 sting operation in the middle of the Brooks Range in which six guides, pilots, hunters and smugglers were charged with hunting and wildlife violations. The cast also includes three Spanish hunters, a wealthy German, a guide's wife who keeps her makeup perfectly intact even in the middle of nowhere, and a host of other characters so colorful they might have walked off an episode of "Northern Exposure."