The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the

The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird (A Wild True Crime Adventure)

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggsâ€”and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.

On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britainâ€™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 globetrotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors for royals in the United Arab Emiratesâ€”where falcon races have multimillion-dollar purses and a champion bird might just be worth risking prison forâ€”and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdomâ€™s National Wildlife Crime Unit, whoâ€™s determined to protect the worldâ€™s birds of prey from one of the most irrepressible predators of our time.

The Falcon Thief whisks readers from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabweâ€™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. Itâ€™s a story thatâ€™s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventureâ€”and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2020-02-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2020-02-11
Format	Kindle eBook

The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird (A Wild True Crime Adventure)