Running Dark: A Woods Cop Mystery

Review
"Engrossing stuff. Lots of well-plotted action and an offbeat, affecting love story."--Kirkus Reviews
"Outdoors-types will especially appreciate the involved battles over commercial fishing limits and poaching."--Publishers Weekly
" . . . easy to read . . . full of engaging characters . . ."--Bay City Times
We go back in time twenty-five years to meet Service as a young conservation officer. Still fresh from Vietnam, but on home turf, Service has been tapped for an unusual assignment that threatens to be his last. Full of outrageous characters, Running Dark is the fourth book in the Woods Cop Mystery series and is a wild and is a riveting ride.
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From the Back Cover
Joseph Heywood ratchets up the suspense in yet another
WOODS COP MYSTERY Grady Service is back. And this time the scene is dicier than ever. We go back in time twenty-five years to meet Service as a young conservation officer. He's still fresh from Vietnam, but he's on his home turf now. Service is good at his new job and he's been tapped for an unusual assignment that threatens to be his last. It's the height of the historical battle in the Upper Peninsula's Garden Peninsula. The Garden had always been a lawless place. In the 1970s, armed fishermen claimed their takes and to hell with law enforcement. The renegades far outgunned the COs, who risked their lives attempting to enforce limits. Service goes undercover to expose the leaders of the Garden revolt. He's as good as dead. With the aid of a one-legged female informant and lessons of stealth learned in the jungles of Vietnam, Service descends into the land of outlaws. The question goes beyond whether he will come out of the Garden alive―but whether he can root out the criminals without becoming one himself. Replete with outrageous characters and the verisimilitude this series has come to be known for, Running Dark is a wild and fully entertaining ride.