Monday evening, Sept. 19, beginning at 6:30 p.m., the Freeport Community Library will host co-authors Roger Guay and Kate Flora for a book talk on “A Good Man with a Dog: A Game Warden’s 25 Years in the Maine Woods,” released April 2016 by Skyhorse Publishing.

When Roger Guay’s father died in a tragic fishing accident, a kind game warden helped him through the loss. Inspired by this experience, as well as his love of the outdoors, Guay became a game warden and certified K9 handler in 1986, beginning a successful career that would span 25 years and see him establish canine units as a staple of the game warden service.

In “A Good Man with a Dog,” Guay takes readers from the woods of Maine to the swamps of New Orleans introducing the reader to the patient, watchful world of a warden catching poachers and protecting pristine wilderness, and the sometimes CSI-like reconstruction of deer-and-moose-poaching scenes.

Guay searches for lost hunters and hikers; estimating that over the years, he has pulled more than two hundred bodies out of Maine’s north woods. His frequent companion is a little brown Lab named Reba, who can find discarded weapons, ejected shells, hidden fish, and missing people.

“A Good Man with a Dog” explores Guay’s life as he and his canine partners are exposed to increasingly terrible events, from tracking down hostile poachers to searching for victims of violent crimes, including a year-long search for the hidden graves of two babies buried by a Massachusetts cult.

He witnessed firsthand FEMA’s mismanagement of the post-Katrina cleanup efforts in New Orleans, an experience that left him scarred and disheartened. But he found hope with the support of family and friends, and eventually returned to the woods he knew and loved from the days of his youth.

In addition to being the coauthor of “A Good Man with a Dog,” Kate Flora is an award-winning author of 15 mystery and true crime books, including “And Grant You Peace,” winner of the 2015 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction and the nonfiction “Death Dealer,” about a Canadian murder where Maine game wardens were instrumental in finding the victim’s hidden body. She is a former Maine assistant attorney general and describes herself as a recovering attorney.

The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing this evening as well. For directions to Freeport Community Library, visit freeportlibrary.com or call (207) 865-3307.