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Hummingbird salamander

by Jeff VanderMeer

A security consultant receives a key to a storage unit containing a taxidermied hummingbird and clues left by a deceased ecoterrorist. Retrieving the item triggers a sequence of dangerous events involving the daughter of an Argentine industrialist.

Accession 35827 ISBN 9780008299316 Publisher Fourth Estate
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