TY - SOUND AU - Hammer,Joshua AU - Davies,Matthew Lloyd TI - The falcon thief: a true tale of adventure, treachery, and the hunt for the perfect bird SN - 9781797103457 PY - 2020///] CY - New York, NY PB - Simon & Schuster Audio KW - Wildlife crimes KW - Falcons KW - Eggs KW - Wild bird trade KW - Rare birds KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - True crime stories N1 - Compact discs; Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies N2 - 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. 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 a globetrotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors for royals in the United Arab Emirates, where falcon races have multimillion-dollar purses, and a champion bird might just be worth risking prison for, and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom's National Wildlife Crime Unit, who's determined to protect the world's birds of prey from one of the most irrepressible predators ER -