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The falcon thief : a true tale of adventure, treachery, and the hunt for the perfect bird / Joshua Hammer.

by Hammer, Joshua, 1957-

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Simon & Schuster, 2020.

Wildlife crimes.

Falcons -- Eggs.

Wild bird trade.

9781501191886 (hc.)

Alternate title:

True tale of adventure, treachery, and the hunt for the perfect bird

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

xiv, 317 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index.

The airport -- The investigator -- The interview -- The art of falconry -- Rhodesia -- Liverpool -- The trial -- The collectors -- AfricaXtreme -- Dubai -- Operation Chilly -- Busted -- The unit -- The Rhondda Valley -- Prison -- Patagonia -- Gauteng.

"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 tale almost too bizarre to believe, 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. From the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe's Matobo National Park and the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, The Falcon Thief tracks a man who is reckless, charming, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own." --book jacket.

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