![]() An exciting story of smugglers, lawmen, corrupt government officials, organized crime, and slithery beasts., Bryan Christy has fulfilled his contract as a writer on all counts in this impassioned, noirish, funny, ruthlessly-researched masterpeice he has, with a poet's soul, given voice to the voiceless, shown us a world we could not otherwise explore on our own and born witness to the careless mentality of our collecting, consuming culture. Christy takes us deep inside the world of the smuggler. Abagnale's Catch Me if You Can: the determined lawman, the flamboyant scofflaw, the eventual showdown. Set in the mid-1990s, is reminiscent of the film version of Frank W. ![]() By the timeTHE LIZARD KINGhas escalated to describing the bear-gallbladder trade, it is rich with memorable moments.", Who knew the world of reptile smuggling was so poisonous?. ![]() has a tangle of smugglers, agents, breeders and highly colorful minor players (like the tiger-purchasing Miami gangster who sounds like the prototype for "Scarface") with stories to tell. ![]() Christy's entertaining book is about the crooks, swashbucklers and drug kingpins who constitute the underbelly of the reptile-dealing world. ![]() "THE LIZARD KINGis a wild, woolly, finny, feathery and scaly account of animal smuggling on a grand scale, in a weird world so expansive that a few hundred stray snakes and turtles amount to peanuts. ![]()
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