“Our thin cadre of wildlife agents scattered across the American landscape are some of our finest law enforcement professionals. . . . Agent Terry Grosz, one of the nation’s best, gives us well written, hearty tales packed with high stakes, drama, tears, and laughter.”

—John F. Turner, Former Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

In his seventh book, Genesis of a Duck Cop, award-winning author Terry Grosz takes the time to reflect on the events in his life that led him to a career defending wildlife, and the milestones that occurred within that career. With the same characteristic blend of outrage and humor that his readers have come to expect, this book also takes a look at the stories behind the man. The stories here are numerous: there are heartbreaking tales of loss of innocence, the hilarious drama of coming-of-age, and the history of the courtship that led Grosz to his wife. Through it all, there are also the stories of adventure, rescue, and danger that marked Grosz’s earlier books. Learn how a boy who pitched hay, worked as a logger, played high school and college football, and discovered the beauty of the outdoors became the man who worked in state and federal wildlife enforcement for 32 years. And rediscover why, as people like him get more and more rare, we find that we need them more than ever.

The Thin Green Line, author Terry Grosz's last book in his series of true stories about defending America's wild creatures, is a heartfelt, sometimes gut-wrenching journey into the never-ending war on poachers, smugglers and market hunters. There is no shortness of passion and hard-won authority in Grosz's stories. There is also no shortness of danger - both to wildlife and to himself and fellow law enforcement officers.

He recounts his lively and dangerous career as a wildlife cop in the same exuberant unpretentious style it was lived — and something like Louis L'Amour meets Mike Hammer"
— David Peterson, author of Heartsblood and Ghost Grizzlies

In No Safe Refuge, Terry Grosz continues the chronicle of his remarkable career defending America’s wild creatures from those hunters, poachers, and commercial market hunters who just didn’t know when to stop.

A natural-born storyteller, Grosz has an almost limitless supply of amazing tales to tell — matching wits with the “bad guys” for three decades produced a wealth of stories, by turns hair-raising, hilarious, and heartwrenching.

Extinction happens without a sound, Terry Grosz often says, and he welcomes the opportunity to speak up for the wild creatures that have no voice of their own. Best of all, though, his stories are so remarkably entertaining you won’t want to put them down.

In A Sword for Mother Nature Terry Grosz tells tales from his years as a game warden for the State of California, complementing the stories from his first book, Wildlife Wars. The early years of his career were a crucial time of intense on-the-job training. Grosz writes of apparently simple cases turned deadly; he describes his days as an over-eager young game warden who foolishly believed in his own immortality, and the trouble he made for himself because of it.

“Terry Grosz’s adventures in 32 years of enforcing wildlife law
astonish even his fellow wardens, and he tells them in a way
that keeps you turning the pages till there aren’t any more.”
—Ted Williams, Editor-at-Large, Audubon Magazine
Conservation Editor, Fly Rod & Reel

Honorable Mention, National Outdoor Book Award

For Love of Wildness picks up where Wildlife Wars left off, with Terry Grosz’s move from a state game warden to a federal game management agent for the U.S. Fish & Wildife Service. Now his “district” was the entire United States, and the cases became more complex and broader in scope. Grosz tells a hilarious story about taking a few potshots at the Soviet navy in defense of California’s abalone, as well as a heart-stopping battle with the elements when his boat flipped over in the San Joaquin Delta and his waders were filling up with water, pulling him under.

“His tales have the momentum of a burning wagon rolling downhill toward a cabin full
of bad guys. Above all, they are driven by Grosz’s love of wildlife and hatred
of the incredible illegal slaughter that is happening in this country.”
—Ed Dentry, Denver Rocky Mountain News

In Defending Our Wildlife Heritage, Terry Grosz’s third book of high-adventure tales, he chronicles his years as a federal special agent, when he left his home state of California and headed off for new horizons and bigger battles. Grosz was posted to the Northern Plains where, cold and wet, he staked out fields overnight to catch landowners draining vital wetlands; then to Washington, D.C., where he carried the struggle to the halls of bureaucracy, and, in one of conservation’s greatest triumphs, he fought to create the Fish & Wildlife Service’s state-of-the-art forensic lab.

“Throughout the breezy, entertaining book, Grosz’s intellectual and emotional commitment to the cause shines through, and his many scathing remarks about how wildlife agencies are badly underfunded really hit home.” —Booklist

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and Colorado Book Award Finalist

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Nature and the Environment, Wildlife Wars is Terry Grosz’s first book, featuring his rookie years as a state fish and game warden in California. During his early years on the front lines of conservation law enforcement, Grosz matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, commercial-market duck hunters and a host of other law-breakers.

“Environmentalism meets Indiana Jones in these rip-snorting tales of a former wildlife conservation officer.” —Publishers Weekly