Chimera — Ken Goddard

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Special Agent Gedimin Bulatt is in Thailand for a conference when a party of illegal hunters are discovered by local forestry rangers, leaving four rangers dead and his friend and fellow officer gravely wounded. This begins Bulatt's search for the members of that illegal hunting party culminating in a climax in the wilderness of Washington State, where a rogue geneticist has created creatures resembling mammoths to be killed by these rich men. Bulatt finds himself targeted, while he and his companion seek to gain evidence needed to arrest the illegal hunters and their ruthless guides.

“His prose is sheer explosive energy.”
- Eric Van Lustbader

"Goddard writes circles around many others in his field."
- Dorothy Uhnak

"Ken Goddard is a 'Field and Stream' Tom Clancy."
- Kirkus reviews

"Goddard has a keen sense of how to hold the reader."
- Clive Cussler

"Goddard nicely combines our instinctive fear of things glimpsed at the corner of the eye with the mind's rational habit of assembling evidence..."
- Tom Perry

author bio:
Ken Goddard began his law enforcement career in 1968 as a deputy sheriff/criminalist working CSI and analyzing evidence for the Riverside and San Bernardino County (CA) Crime Labs. In 1972, he was hired by the Huntington Beach (CA) Police Department to set up a Scientific Investigation Bureau for homicide, robbery, narcotics and burglary investigations. In 1979, He joined the US Fish & Wildlife Service to design and direct the National Fish & Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, which provides forensic support for federal, state and international wildlife law enforcement agencies all over the world. Ken and his wife live in Ashland, Oregon. www.kengoddardbooks.com