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.
Her job: to investigate crimes against wildlife. Unlike the majority of
hunters who respect both their prey and the laws, evidence was piling up
against an unscrupulous outfitter who was decimating populations of big
game in Alaska's Brooks Range. In August 1992, she accepted an
assignment that forever changed--and endangered--her life. She left her
husband and seven-year-old daughter behind in Wisconsin and 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.A
Hunt for Justice recounts her dramatic story--a story she was not
legally permitted to write about until her retirement in 2004.Risking
personal safety, Schroeder joined a team of government agents to expose
and arrest the poachers. Posing as "Jayne," a divorcee who was willing
to break the rules in order to hunt trophy animals, the diminutive
blue-eyed blonde fooled criminals so wily that their crimes could only
be cracked from within. A Hunt for Justice takes readers along on
Schroeder's dangerous and exciting mission. More than simply an
adventure or true-crime tale, it's a story of a woman surviving in a
male-dominated field, a woman against the wilderness, and a wife and
mother risking it all for a cause she believes in. Whether you are a
crime buff, nature lover, sports hunter, or someone who just loves a
gripping-first-person tale of justice triumphing over evil, this book is
for you.
