I couldn't tell a jaybird from a jaywalker, but I loved this book: an international, ornithological whodunit. "You don't need to know, or care, about birds to enjoy The Falcon Thief. Janet Reitman, bestselling author of Inside Scientology
It is a tremendous relief to read a book that teleports you out of current politics into a wholly new world that is both magical and thrilling and weird and wholly unknown.
Josh Hammer has an amazing ability to find truly great yarns, and he's done this again with The Falcon Thief. Carl Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo and Savage Harvest The Falcon Thief is more than just a ripping page turner it is a cautionary tale about what happens when our most precious wildlife becomes status symbol in our diminishing natural world." An agile and fearless, globe-trotting obsessive dangling beneath helicopters and slipping through borders from Patagonia to the high Arctic. Russell Shorto, New York Times bestselling author of Revolution Song and The Island at the Center of the World
It's an absorbing story of a thief, an obsession, and an astounding bird." "This book moves like a falcon: sleek and fast. It's a story that's part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure-and wholly unputdownable until the very last page. The Falcon Thief whisks readers 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. 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. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. 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. Description A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs-and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.
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