Gator Aide by Jessica Speart

July 25, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Avon Books, 1997. 304 pgs. Received from PaperBackSwap. Rachel Porter’s first major case after months chasing bird poachers on the bayou brings her to infamous French Quarter in New Orleans to deal with a dead alligator chained to a bathtub — not far from an equally dead stripper. But when Rachel discovers that an overdose of heroin-stuffed condoms — and not the five bullet holes in the gator’s head — was the true cause of its demise, […]

Categories: 2012 Reads, Animals, Crime, Fiction, North America, United States • Tags: Jessica Speart

Border Prey by Jessica Speart

July 16, 2012 by Christina

Fiction — print. Avon Books, 2000. 282 pgs. Received from PaperBackSwap. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Rachel Porter has been reassigned to El Paso, Texas, home to game ranches that provide rare antelopes, Indian deer, and African oryx for the rich to hunt. Agent Porter has a tip that one of these ranches, the Happy Hunting Ranch, is hiding primates somewhere on their grounds before smuggling the animals over the Mexican border. But the “reformed” smuggler who passed along the […]

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Winged Obsession by Jessica Speart

May 27, 2011 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. William Marrow, 2011. 308 pgs. Advanced Review Copy. Subtitled “The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler”, Speart’s book details the attempts of rookie U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Ed Newcomer to capture the kingpin of butterfly smugglers, Yoshi Kojima. One of the world’s most beautiful but 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 than — or […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Animals, Nonfiction, North America, United States • Tags: Jessica Speart