The Falcon Thief

The Falcon Thief
Author: Joshua Hammer
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-02-16
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 150119190X

A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a “vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do” (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.

Falcon Beings

Falcon Beings
Author: Garima Jaiswal
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-12-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1543704301

This is a Science-Fiction novel concerning an era nearing 2080, when the Technology and Livings are much more developed. A world-wide project of 50 Countries in collaboration, designed and built a shuttle, to sent 11 best scientists on earth to a newly discovered planet, holding standards to support life. This planet is 18 light years away from Earth in anti-galactic center direction, lying in some other solar system. This successfully launched spaceship has reached 12 ly in space, and occurs something very appalling and revolting, cutting off all the connections of these scientists from earth. Now, despite numerous attempts these 11 tellurians been unable to re-establish contacts with their parent planet. At this far distance returning off-course seems no great option. So now, with no connections, no assistance from earth, armed only with their resources, they decide to take up an entirely new project, a very big and magnificent one..... something humans would never have planned earlier before.... It was Project EOL – “Evolution Of Life”

The Falcon File

The Falcon File
Author: Daniel Wyatt
Publisher: Mushroom Publishing
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1843191857

The intelligence war in Europe during WWII opens the eyes of young American intelligence officer Wesley Hollinger. He does not like what he sees... The Fuehrermaster Spring, 1941. Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill is on the verge of being overthrown by an English lobby group of Nazi appeasers who plan to sign a secret pact with Nazi Fuehrer Adolf Hitler to end the war in Europe. Hitler gets wind of the overthrow. He feels that the British group are ready to cut a deal on his terms, and that only one man--his deputy Rudolf Hess--could pull it off for the Fatherland. Through secret channels, Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler--who has his own ambitions to be Fuehrer--finds out what Hess and Hitler are attempting. Across the channel, Churchill's group is ready. Young hot-shot American intelligence agent, Wesley Hollinger, on loan to the British Secret Service, uncovers Heinrich Himmler's plan to eliminate Hess and plant an imposter... The Filberg Consortium It is late 1941. America has yet to enter the war. A German agent secretly lands in Great Britain with orders from Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler and financed by I.S. Filberg, the huge German industrial cartel, to identify and kill the prisoner called Rudolf Hess. Meanwhile, in London, American agent Wesley Hollinger discovers a crucial missing section to the first Hess peace papers found near the crash site in Scotland. The paperwork itemizes sensitive Wall Street loans to Nazi war factories -- deals arranged by I.S. Filberg. Hollinger doesn't know who to turn to -- his adopted England or his home country. And thousands of miles away in the Pacific a heavily-armed Japanese Task Force is heading towards Pearl Harbor... Foo Fighters It is early 1945 and Germany is losing the war. The Russians, the Americans, and the British are closing in on Berlin and Hitler's bunker. In this startling end-of-the-war tale two high-ranking Nazi officials, Martin Bormann and Hermann Goering, are collaborating with Wesley Hollinger and the American OSS for free passage out of Germany in exchange for blueprints to advanced German technology -- jet fighters, rockets, missiles and early flying saucers, nicknamed "Foo Fighters". The Americans are desperate to keep the Foo Fighter blueprints from reaching Russian and British hands. Wesley Hollinger of the OSS soon realizes what World War Two is really all about -- power, money, and politics.

The Falcon

The Falcon
Author: Roxanne Packard
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1606935380

Take a journey into a fantasy world where assassins, heroes and heroines blur the line between right and wrong. The Falcon is set in a fictional world-between medieval enchantment and Victorian elegance. Writer Roxanne Packard has written a book filled with vivid characters, snappy dialogue and a plotline that moves seamlessly between the female protagonist's mischievous nature and her evil nemesis' sadistic control. Dantaelian, born a princess, is a beautiful female assassin whose parents were murdered shortly after her birth. The infamous Falcon, the man responsible for their murders raised her as his own daughter. She knows the truth and struggles with her identity while living the life of one who kills for a living. She must maintain control of her kingdom or face the consequences of its demise. She marries a kind man, Barrett, whose father she murdered. Enter Adam, the sadistic killer who will do anything to gain control over Dantaelian, the kingdom, and woe to anyone who stands in his way. Can Barrett love Dantaelian after learning the truth? Can Dantaelian save the kingdom or will Adam rule her parents' legacy? The Falcon has it all-fantasy, murder, and intrigue. You won't be able to put this one down and the characters will stay with you long after you've turned the last page.

The Cry of the Falcon

The Cry of the Falcon
Author: Robert Strasser
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2000-04-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469762854

[Buy this book now only at the iUniverse.com bookstore. Order from bookstores everywhere in 4-6 weeks!] At the age of six, Robbie Seidler, experiences the horrors of war when the Nazis invade Holland. At the age of nine, after his family is ordered into Germany, he is sent to a Hitler Youth camp in Austria to be trained as a boy soldier. After the end of the war, he and two companions, finally, escape the Nazi hell only to be swallowed up in the flood of refugees struggling to find their loved ones and return home.

Blue Falcon

Blue Falcon
Author: Bryce A. Miles
Publisher: Booksmango
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6167270694

Set in Thailand & LaosWhy make a deal with the devil when you've got God on a technicality? For Bangkok Security Consultant and James Bond wannabe Richard Falcone, that technicality grants him immortality as long as he remains a blue falcon.blue falcon / n / (slang, derog) 1(a) A code phrase coined by US military personnel. (b) Someone who serves himself at the expense of others. (c) Buddy F**kerBut then he takes things a step too far.Framed by a dirty Thai cop for the murder of his boss and blackballed by his acquaintances, Falcone flees to Laos where he finds sanctuary, if not peace. There, an encounter with a man known as the Anti-Buddha inspires an unorthodox mission to reconcile his need for vengeance and atonement. Technicalities be damned, Falcone launches a daring operation that may not only satisfy divine justice, but irrevocably change the lives of his alienated friends and jilted lovers if it doesn't get them all killed first.

Temple Bar

Temple Bar
Author: George Augustus Sala
Publisher:
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1875
Genre: English periodicals
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Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine Falcon
Author: James H. Enderson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2013-08-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0292756216

A superb success as a bird, combining great speed, aeronautical grace, and fearlessness...inhabitant of wild places, inaccessible cliffs, and skyscrapers...worldwide dweller, trans-equatorial migrant, and docile captive—the peregrine falcon stands alone among all others of its kind. Perhaps this is why so many varied people rushed to its aid when it faced decimation by pesticide poisoning. In this personal and highly entertaining memoir, Jim Enderson tells stories of a lifetime spent studying, training, breeding, and simply enjoying peregrine falcons. He recalls how his boyhood interest in raptors grew into an ornithological career in which he became one of the leading experts who helped identity DDT as the cause of the peregrine falcon's sudden and massive decline across the United States. His stories reveal both the dedication that he and fellow researchers brought to the task of studying and restoring the peregrine and the hair-raising adventures that sometimes befell them along the way. Enderson also seamlessly weaves in the biology and natural history of the peregrine, as well as anecdotes about its traditional and widespread use in falconry as an aggressive yet tractable hunter, to offer a broad portrait of this splendid and intriguing falcon.