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

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a man walks into an airport with a suspicious parcel… that turns out to be fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs. Over the course of two decades, Jeffrey Lendrum smuggled endangered raptors for the black market. The birds and their eggs are worth millions on the street, never mind the penalties—both to nature and from the law—for removing them from their natural habitat. Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit pursues Lendrum in this gripping true crime tale of greed, danger, and falconry.