In an eloquent and compelling narrative, Michael Tobias offers an unprecedented look at the culture of hunting and the clandestine poaching rings that are decimating many of the world's most beloved and exotic species. Based on more than 100 interviews with poachers and hunters as well as National Parks Service rangers, legal experts, public informants, and animal rights activists, this crucial account is at once a chilling portrait of the threat to wildlife, and an urgent and rational call to specific, preventive action.

Provides fascinating insider details of a national "sting" operation called "Operation Renegade," the biggest anti-poaching operation in U.S. history.

• Discusses specific endangered species, including grizzly bears, elk, eagles, and mountain lions.

Michael Tobias (Santa Monica, CA) is an award-winning writer and independent film producer specializing in work on the environment. The author of 18 other books, both fiction and nonfiction, Tobias directed the acclaimed 10-hour miniseries Voice of the Planet and the Cine Golden Eagle Award-winning documentary, Blue Tide.