New York & Boston: Twelve / Grand Central Publishing, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an in-depth investigation into the big business of reptile smuggling. "An intense and highly readable investigation into this unique black market's surprising depths. Besides the reptiles themselves, this focuses on two main protagonists: Michael Van Nostrand, a notorious dealer; and Chip Bepler, the Fish and Wildlife Service agent whose single-minded aim was to bring the former to justice." Van Nostrand, owner of Strictly Reptiles, in Hollywood, Florida, imports as many as 300,000 iguanas each year (over half the total of America's most popular imported reptile), as well as hundreds of thousands of snakes, lizards, frogs, spiders, and scorpions. 241 pp. ISBN: 978-0446580953.