Ken Goddard is the director of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory, which might explain his overly conspiratorial view of the world. Nevertheless, he has a unique style and writes rousingly entertaining yarns featuring Henry Lightstone, an undercover special agent for the Department of the Interior. This is the second I have read, and in each, the undercover teams must battle unscrupulous and powerfully rich people just dying to blow away endangered species like grizzlies and golden eagles. Lightstone's Bravo team stumbles into a massive conspiracy to destroy the radical environmental movement in Prey. Seeking to cover up their participation in an illegal hunt that Bravo team was about to close in on, the conspirators, high-ranking bureaucrats in the pay of some wealthy corporations, arrogantly try to suppress the agents' knowledge of their presence by using unseemly bureaucratic pressure. It starts to unravel and they decide they need to adopt more permanent measures to assure anonymity, but they haven't counted on the loyalty and dedication of the wildlife special agents.
Goddard writes with humor, and the books have an almost keystone cops feel as almost everything goes wrong that can but the good guys manage to pull it off regardless. Much fun and hard to put down.
