Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 264
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7627-9633-5 • Hardback • October 2014 • $22.95 • (£17.99)
978-1-4930-1544-3 • eBook • October 2014 • $21.50 • (£16.99)
Lucinda Delaney Schroeder is a retired special agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1974, she became one of the first women hired to work in federal law enforcement. Throughout her thirty-year career she frequently went undercover risking her life for the sake of wildlife and cultural heritage. She lives in Montrose, Colorado.
“Engrossing, spellbinding, an insider’s look at the despicable business of selling stolen American Indian sacred artifacts for profit. One of the best books I’ve read this year.”
—Anne Hillerman, author of Spider Woman’s Daughter
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Whenever Native ceremonial spiritual objects like masks and statues are seen as trophy items by collectors, you can bet the black-market operatives are ready and willing to lie, cheat, and steal in order to make some tainted money. Lucinda Schroeder writes a driving nonfiction narrative of these goings-on in New Mexico, all the more absorbing because she isn't just an author spinning a well-researched tale; she's a special agent who worked undercover in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and even Germany to identify wrongdoers and return the sacred objects to the Dine and Puebloan peoples, where they belong. . . .You'll savor this deftly written page turner that educates as it entertains.— New Mexico Magazine
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The American Southwest
An undercover agent battles betrayal and treachery to stop the illegal exploitation of sacred Native American artifacts