The Falcon Thief: A True Tale Of Adventure, Treachery, And The Hunt For The Perfect Bird

Author: Joshua Hammer

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  • : $30.00 AUD
  • : 9781501191909
  • : Simon & Schuster
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  • : December 2020
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On May 3, 2010, an Irish national names Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airpost 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 Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom's National Wildlife Crime Unit and a globe-trotting smuggler.


The Falcon Thief whisks readers from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe's Matobo National Park and from a frigid tundra to the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a reckless man gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own.