The Falcon Thief | Paperback

The Falcon Thief | Paperback Description

A &well-written, engaging detective story& (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs&and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain&s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a &vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do& (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions&and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom&s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who&s hell bent on protecting the world&s birds of prey. &Masterfully constructed& (The New York Times) and &entertaining and illuminating& (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe&s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It&s a story that&s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure&and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.