The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Search for the Perfect Bird Audiobook (Free)

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who deals in rare parrots and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to avoid him.

On May 3, 2010, an Irish nationwide named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his abdomen. Inside were fourteen uncommon peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote control cliffside in Wales.

So begins a tale almost as well bizarre to believe, following parallel lives of a globe-trotting approximately The Falcon Thief: A GENUINE Tale of Experience, Treachery, and the Search for the Perfect Bird smuggler who spent 2 decades capturing endangered raptors well worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s Country wide Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent about protecting the world’s parrots of prey.

The Falcon Thief whisks readers through the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from your frigid tundra near the Arctic Group to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped with a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s component true-crime narrative, component epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable before very last page.