Author(s): Joshua Hammer

True Crime

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.