The falcon thief : a true tale of adventure, treachery, and the hunt for the perfect bird
Hammer, Joshua, 1957-2021
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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 globetrotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors for royals in the United Arab Emirates - where falcon races have multimillion-dollar purses and a champion bird might just be worth risking prison for - and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom's National Wildlife Crime Unit, who's determined to protect the world's birds of prey from one of the most irrepressible predators of our time.
Main title:
Author:
Hammer, Joshua, 1957-, author
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Collation:
336 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781501191909 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.1628598961468092364.1628364.162
LC class:
HV6410
Language:
English
BRN:
2812909