โ Scribed by James Rollins
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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...
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SUMMARY: MARCH 19, 2003: Republican Guards and the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division fight over the ruins of the Baghdad Zoo. In the looting that follows, hundreds of animals--exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles--are stolen and smuggled to collectors in the United States and Europe. Under the cover of ni
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"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 w
### Amazon.com Review **Guest Review: Steve Berry on _Altar of Eden_ by James Rollins** I first started to hate James Rollins in 1999. That was when I picked up a paperback original called _Subterranean_ , Rollins' first book. While I was struggling even to write a manuscript, this veterinarian ou
Baghdad falls . . . and armed men are seen looting the city zoo. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground lab is ransacked--and something horrific is set loose upon the world. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk investigates an abandoned shipwrecked fishing trawler