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(More customer reviews)I was excited about starting this book. I was surprised to learn that there was such a massive illegal market in butterflies of all things. This could have been a really good book, but it simply is not well written. The material as presented was not compelling.
My biggest problem with this book is that it is boring. A book about an international manhunt for a smuggler should not be boring. It was 300 pages long and should have been no more than 200. The reader is subjected to quoted conversations between the agent and the target that repeat essentially the same thing over and over. It goes on page after page after page and then it comes back again. The author seems obsessed with describing the homosexual lust of the smuggler towards the undercover agent. I wanted to shoot myself while slogging through it all.
So the material is not compelling and the writing style is poor. Skip this one. The only reason it got two stars is because the information about the illegal trade in butterflies and bugs was interesting in itself.
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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 than-or posed as great an ecological danger as-Yoshi 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.
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