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Joshua Hammer, "The Falcon Thief"
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March 11, 2020
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58:30Now PlayingJoshua Hammer discusses, "The Falcon Thief", at Politics and Prose.
Hammer follows his bestselling The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu—possibly the most exciting library adventure story ever told—with a gripping account of wildlife smuggling. Set in locales ranging from Patagonia to Wales to Zimbabwe, the Arctic Circle, and Dubai, the book follows the exploits of Jeffrey Lendrum, an Irishman who for twenty years supplied members of the royal families of the United Arab Emirates with the falcons and other raptors—many of them endangered species—they used for races carrying multimillion dollar purses. Equally enthralling is the parallel saga of Andy McWilliams, the detective from Britain’s National Wildlife Crimes Unit who was determined to catch Lendrum.
Joshua Hammer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Outside. He lives in Berlin.
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