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Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets
Lyons Press
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 1599219263
EAN: 9781599219264
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
On the heels of his acclaimed The Dangerous World of
Butterflies, investigative journalist Peter Laufer is back
to chronicle his worldwide quest to penetrate the underworld
of international animal smuggling. In Forbidden Creatures,
Laufer exposes the network of hunters, traders, breeders,
and customers who constitute this nefarious business—which,
estimated at $10 to $20 billion annually, competes with
illegal drug and weapons trafficking in the money it earns
criminals. Laufer asks: What is being smuggled, from where
and why? What is being done to stop the illegal trading and
irresponsible breeding? Taking readers to exotic and often
lawless locales, Laufer introduces brazen and dangerous
traders and wealthy customers whose greed and mindless
self-interest perpetuate what is now a crisis of survival
for a growing number of wild species. Woven throughout with riveting stories from law
enforcement officials and federal prosecutors, Forbidden
Creatures is a compelling, first-person narrative written in
Laufer’s hallmark conversational, entertaining style.
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