Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked - and something even more horrific is set free. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing trawler shipwrecked on a barrier island. The crew is missing or dead, but the boat holds a frightening cargo: a caged group of exotic animals, clearly part of a black market smuggling ring. Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger. They also all share one uncanny trait - a disturbingly heightened intelligence. To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo and t
Produktkennzeichnungen
EAN
9781409117568
ISBN
9781409117568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
98714309
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Autor
James Rollins
Format
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Orion Publishing Group
Maße
Gewicht
226g
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Sprachausgabe
Englisch
Seiten
402 Seiten
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