Under cover of darkness in the English countryside, private contractors are shooting thousands of badgers as part of a nine-year British government programme to control the spread of bovine TB. In this hard-hitting book, Dominic Dyer, chief executive of the Badger Trust, gives an inside account of the commercial and political origins of the cull, its flawed science, and the impromptu Badger Army of activists determined to halt it. Foreword by the BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham.