The son of a slain Little Rock Police Officer, Kyle Grant was honored and excited to receive his acceptance to the FBI Academy. On the eve of his departure, an unsuspecting Grant is viciously snatched from his home. The next day, a man named Peter Wallace assumes Grant's identity and reports to Quantico, Virginia, taking Grant's place at the FBI Academy. Deep within the Ozark Mountains, Grant languishes in a prison called the Fortress, a terrorist lair. The Fortress is the terrorist training Academy of the Wallace family, led by the patriarch and evil genius Tim Wallace. Wallace groomed his children, whom he affectionately called coyotes, to be trained terrorists. Each coyote's mission is to infiltrate key government agencies in preparation for a terrorist assault on the United States. Grant's kidnapping is the final move on the Wallace's terrorist chessboard. Their evil plot, however, will face a major obstacle. Carlos Sullivan, veteran FBI Agent and polygraph examiner, is a pioneer in the field of lie detection, assigned to the Boston office of the FBI. By happenstance, Grant's imposter is posted to the Boston Office, where he crosses paths with Sullivan, who soon begins to suspect the new Agent is not who he claims to be. Sullivan and his team begin a search for the truth, which leads to a cat and mouse game. Will Grant's imposter be discovered before it's too late? Can the coyotes be stopped or will the terrorist plot bring the country to its knees?

The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.

For six years Anya Korbin worked with Del-Rey Delgato—the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost—to free a group of coyote women kept in her father’s lab. As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Rey grew close…but then he broke his promise and killed her father. Now she must deal with her animalistic desire for the one who betrayed her.

Carlos Sullivan and his team of FBI Agents swing into action again, in this suspenseful continuation of The Coyote Wars saga. Alexa Wallace, the youngest member of the Coyote family of terrorists, is alone and on the run. Her brother, Michael Wallace, languishes in a federal Supermax prison. Using all her training and ingenuity, Alexa devises a plot to free her sibling. But first, she strikes back at those hunting her. The cold blooded nature of her attack leaves the team reeling. Can Sullivan and his FBI colleagues catch the last coyote in time? Can Sullivan battle his demons to overcome the greatest challenge of his career? The fast paced nature of this thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat.

An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist. Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common—even for people living in non-rural areas. Farmers anxious to protect their sheep from wolves aren’t the only ones concerned: suburbanites and city dwellers are also having more unwanted run-ins with mammalian predators. And that might not be a bad thing. After all, our government has been at war with wildlife since 1914, and the death toll has been tremendous: federal agents kill a combined ninety thousand wolves, bears, coyotes, and cougars every year, often with dubious biological effectiveness. Only recently have these species begun to recover. Given improved scientific understanding and methods, can we continue to slow the slaughter and allow populations of mammalian predators to resume their positions as keystone species? As carnivore populations increase, however, their proximity to people, pets, and livestock leads to more conflict, and we are once again left to negotiate the uneasy terrain between elimination and conservation. In The Predator Paradox, veteran wildlife management expert John Shivik argues that we can end the war while still preserving and protecting these key species as fundamental components of healthy ecosystems. By reducing almost sole reliance on broad scale “death from above” tactics and by incorporating nonlethal approaches to managing wildlife—from electrified flagging to motion-sensor lights—we can dismantle the paradox, have both people and predators on the landscape, and ensure the long-term survival of both. As the boundary between human and animal habitat blurs, preventing human-wildlife conflict depends as much on changing animal behavior as on changing our own perceptions, attitudes, and actions. To that end, Shivik focuses on the facts, mollifies fears, and presents a variety of tools and tactics for consideration. Blending the science of the wild with entertaining and dramatic storytelling, Shivik’s clear-eyed pragmatism allows him to appeal to both sides of the debate, while arguing for the possibility of coexistence: between ranchers and environmentalists, wildlife managers and animal-welfare activists, and humans and animals.

"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about the fighting abilities of mountain lions and coyotes. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose droppings, coyotes are killing your pets, the neighbor’s cat has turned your bird feeder into a fast-food outlet, wild turkeys have eaten your newly-planted seed corn, beavers have flooded your driveway, or bears are looting your garbage cans. For 400 years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife and forests in an escalating rampage that culminated in the late 19th century’s “era of extermination.” By 1900, populations of many wild animals and birds had been reduced to isolated remnants or threatened with extinction, and worry mounted that we were running out of trees. Then, in the 20th century, an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists outlawed commercial hunting, created wildlife sanctuaries, transplanted isolated species to restored habitats and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they slowly nursed many wild populations back to health. But after the Second World War something happened that conservationists hadn’t foreseen: sprawl. People moved first into suburbs on urban edges, and then kept moving out across a landscape once occupied by family farms. By 2000, a majority of Americans lived in neither cities nor country but in that vast in-between. Much of sprawl has plenty of trees and its human residents offer up more and better amenities than many wild creatures can find in the wild: plenty of food, water, hiding places, and protection from predators with guns. The result is a mix of people and wildlife that should be an animal-lover’s dream-come-true but often turns into a sprawl-dweller’s nightmare. Nature Wars offers an eye-opening look at how Americans lost touch with the natural landscape, spending 90 percent of their time indoors where nature arrives via television, films and digital screens in which wild creatures often behave like people or cuddly pets. All the while our well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control, causing damage costing billions, degrading ecosystems, and touching off disputes that polarized communities, setting neighbor against neighbor. Deeply researched, eloquently written, counterintuitive and often humorous Nature Wars will be the definitive book on how we created this unintended mess.

Former Comanche captive Rusty Shannon tries to resume a normal life after the end of the Civil War, but instead finds himself confronted by racial tension, murderous outlaws, brutal Comanche bands, and his nemesis--the deadly Oldham brothers.

The gunshot that put Carlos Sullivan in a coma incapacitated him for weeks, but it didn't rob him of his intuition. His sense that another terrorist cell had formed was right on the money. Sullivan and his FBI team have plenty of experience with the Wallace family, but the new Coyote clan is largely an unknown. This unfamiliar group is composed of the four Foster children. Their leader, William Foster, infiltrated Maine law enforcement as a state trooper. His sisters, the twins, have an interest in explosives. And his brother, Sean, who was crippled by an accident in El Salvador, is a cyber expert. With their combined skills, they wreak a lot of havoc throughout Maine and Massachusetts. Sullivan finds friends and colleagues falling dead at his feet. Between the Fosters and his own dark secret, can he ever hope to make it out alive? Coyote Rising is the riveting finale of the Coyote Wars series. It's heaped with tension, and countless twists and turns will keep you guessing until the very last page. An FBI agent himself, Michael De La Pe�a wrote this series to show the true nature of the FBI and the teamwork that makes success possible.

A soldier at the age of eleven; an honorably discharged veteran at age of thirteen; a miner, a cotton-picker, a shepherd, and a graduate of Hollywood High, Luis Perez lived an incredible life, which has shaped his story into a vividly-realized autobiographical account. Originally published in 1947, El Coyote , the Rebel tells how the toddler Luis, son of an Aztec mother and a French diplomat father, ended up in the care of an uncle, who soon drank away most of the boys inheritance. Having run away from cruel treatment, Luis by chance came to fight with the rebel armies in the 1910 Mexican Revolution, received the nickname of "El Coyote" for his cunning, and was wounded in combat. Upon being given a discharge and a twenty-dollar bill, he walked across the border to become an American. His story concludes, after an episode of amorous misadventures in a missionary school, with the young hero preparing to marry his true love and solemnly taking the oath of U.S. citizenship, at "the beginning of a new tomorrow."