![]() You will never look at a butterfly the same way again. The amount of money involved in this trade is staggering the amount used to fight against it is laughable. As an agent of the US Fish and Wildlife Agency he is on the front lines of the battle against this crime. ![]() So what, you might say, it's only butterflies after all. If only the legal system took it more seriously. But once I got going, of course I was hooked, because Yoshi Kojima is such a strange person - the kind of oncoming disasters is hard to look away from, and it's hard not to root for Ed Newcomer - who just wants to save wildlife and keeps getting drawn into increasingly bizarre and uncomfortable undercover situations to do so.Butterfly smuggling is a strange and depressing world - the kind you just hope doesn't exist - that all those framed insects you see for sale were responsibly harvested, etc. It wasn't that the book was anti-science, but it was a bit light in science where I would have wanted more, and some of the characterizations struck me a little "dime story mystery novel" - which made more sense when I looked up the author and discovered that she primarily writes mysteries. The butterfly on the cover caught my eye.When I finally got around to reading it I had some reservations at first. ![]() I picked up this book at a little bookstore in Iowa that had a box of ARCs at the door that you could pick through if you made a purchase. ![]()
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