دانلود کتاب Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler

winged obsession The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. And in this cutthroat $200 million business, no one made more money thanor posed as great an ecological danger asYoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers. Determined to capture Kojima, rookie U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Ed Newcomer became close to the smuggler, posing as a young apprentice eager to learn the smuggling trade. But twice the agent's inexperience allowed this criminal, with a nearly supernatural sense of survival and an overwhelming sense of paranoia, to get away. Just when it seemed Kojima was out of reach, Newcomer was given one last chance to reel him in. Somewhere in the hunt, Kojima had become obsessed with the agent. This obsession, along with his continued mania for butterflies, could finally spell the downfall of the untouchable smuggler. But the story doesn't end there. Working under-cover to research this book, Jessica Speart befriended Kojima as well. Like Newcomer, she was going to betray Kojima. What she didn't know was that this cagey smuggler was planning to turn the tables and use her as a patsy for continuing his illegal butterfly trade. ReviewA true thriller about an undercover U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent hunting for the human vacuum cleaner of the insect world. (Cleveland Plain Dealer )Reads like a suspense thriller. (Oklahoma City Oklahoman )Winged Obsession offers a fascinating glimpse into the illegal market in exotic and endangered butterflies....By the end of Winged Obsession, I was rooting for creatures I didnt know existed before I read the book. (Miami Herald )Butterfly smugglers? Who knew? Journalist Jessica Speart chases down the butterfly worlds most elusive criminal, the notorious Yoshi Kojima, in her fantastic new book. Its a journey with the twists and turns of a taut thriller like The Orchid Thief, only with wings. (Daily Candy )Meet the Hannibal Lecter of the conservation world... this expose reads like a thriller and proves once again that truth is stranger than fiction. (Lee Child, New York Times Bestselling author )Winged Obsession is an unputdownable thriller.... I loved this book! (Lisa Scottoline, New York Times Bestselling author ) From the Back CoverOne of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. In this cutthroat $200 million business, no one was more successfulor posed a greater ecological dangerthan Yoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers.In Winged Obsession, author Jessica Speart tells the riveting true story of rookie U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Ed Newcomer's determined crusade to halt the career of a brazen and ingenious criminal with an almost supernatural sixth sense for survival. But the story doesn't end there. Speart chronicles her own attempts, while researching the book, to befriend Kojima before betraying himunaware that the cagey smuggler had his own plans to make the writer a player in his illegal butterfly trade.