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. Like Newcomer, she was going to betray Kojima. Working under-cover to research this book, Jessica Speart befriended Kojima as well. This obsession, along with his continued mania for butterflies, could finally spell the downfall of the untouchable smuggler.īut the story doesn't end there. Somewhere in the hunt, Kojima had become obsessed with the agent. Contact seller Seller Rating: Used - SoftcoverCondition: GOOD US 5. Just when it seemed Kojima was out of reach, Newcomer was given one last chance to reel him in. Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler Jessica Speart Published byWilliam Morrow Paperbacks, 2012 ISBN 10: 0061772445ISBN 13: 9780061772443 Seller: Discover Books, Toledo, OH, U.S.A. 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. Fish and Wildlife Agent Ed Newcomer became close to the smuggler, posing as a young apprentice eager to learn the smuggling trade. One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market.Īnd in this cutthroat $200 million business, no one made more money than-or posed as great an ecological danger as-Yoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers.ĭetermined to capture Kojima, rookie U.S. The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler
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