- Street:
- Village Books
- Additional:
- 1200 Eleventh Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
In the murky underwater world of Puget Sound in Washington state lives an obscene-looking giant mollusk known as the geoduck. Due to savvy marketing, good fortune, and a lust abroad for obscure delicacies, these bivalves are so valuable that they have even been traded for heroin, and that worth has helped create a perfect recipe for crime. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, comes Shell Games, an irresistible blend of crime drama and natural history about a larger-than-life man who stole millions of dollars in larger-than-life marine creatures, and then led wildlife police on a two-year odyssey to catch him. Shell Games is a delightfully offbeat cops-and-robbers tale set in the heart of one of America’s strangest subcultures, a double-crossing world where tough men and women fight turf wars over shellfish. It is also a stunning examination of the international black market for animals, plants, insects, and sea life––the most profitable underworld after the illegal trade in drugs and guns. Award-winning journalist, Craig Welch, is a Seattle Times reporter.
2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
