Very mild reading crease to the spine. The covers are uncreased. Pages clean and firm. Excellent artwork to the cover. Every year storks would set off on their astounding 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to the remote Central African jungle. One year, inexplicably, puzzling numbers of them fail to return. At the invitation of a Swiss ornithologist, Louis Antoch agrees to investigate the mystery of the birds disappearance. Before he can set off on his quest, however, his patron is found dead, in bizarre circumstances. The author's narrative developes at a nightmare pace from a Bulgarian gypsy camp to a kibbutz in the Occupied Territories, to the African jungle, to Calcutta where an appalling and gruesome truth emerges.

Africa Storks Birds Kibbutz