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A Hunt for Justice: The True Story of a Woman Undercover Wildlife Agent

Selected for the 2007 Amelia Bloomer Project list of recommended feminist literature for young readers

For thirty years, Lucinda Delaney Schroeder held an unusual government position: she was one of the handful of women special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In August 1992, she accepted an assignment that forever changed—and endangered—her life. She posed as a big-game hunter in Alaska in order to infiltrate an international ring of poachers out to kill the biggest and best of that state's wildlife.

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A Hunt for Justice recounts her dramatic story—a story she was not legally permitted to write about until her retirement in 2004.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 296 pages

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