(Simon & Schuster) Prepare to enter the surreal landscape of the wildlife-crime underworld where you’ll meet notorious wild-bird trafficker and convicted egg thief Jeffrey Lendrum. You, like the author, may not have even considered that a lucrative black market for wild birds’ eggs existed, much less that obtaining these valuable eggs would involve dangerous missions to the remote corners of our planet. In Dubai, one of the places this well-researched and meticulously-documented book will take you, there ar … (read more)