Falcons over Lifandoy - by George B. Hill

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The third story in the lives of nature reserve warden Tim Corn and his fiancée Jessica, on the island of Lifandoy, finds them facing an evil new threat to their island wildlife. Falcon thieves have been followed to the island. Tim’s team sets up a spy operation to catch them in the act. But an unexpected helper makes an unexpected discovery; and what seemed a simple crime becomes both a personal tragedy and a crisis for the international green movement. Tim’s future nieces Alice and Rosalind create their usual havoc, but their help becomes critical to Tim’s amateur espionage, especially when Tim’s boss Keith makes an enemy of Sergeant Kilbally, the island’s only policeman.

When a storm takes Jessica into dangerous waters, a different and even more horrifying hazard for Lifandoy’s wildlife appears. Oil and politics combine to leave the little island helpless. In the confusion, the falcon thieves raid a nest. As the evil surrounding him threatens to engulf much of what he lives for, Tim slowly explores its origin and the nature of a biblical God that neither he nor Jessica believes in. He searches for the stolen falcon chick; while in the meantime a find of ancient gold by Wilfred, Tim’s eccentric Christian uncle, leads Alice to start a secret quest of her own.

Moved by the determination of a diving falcon at the spectacular cliffs of the Great Stack, and provoked by a very ancient Old Testament reading suggested by Uncle Wilfred, Tim struggles for answers. One of a young couple helping him makes an exciting wildlife discovery; and Tim’s reckless former pub cronies and parties of visiting naturalists start a crazy Lifandoy Gold Rush that stirs all the island. But a deadly interruption leads to a terrifying climax.

Finally, how can the falcons be saved? What do Tim’s insights have to do with the dreadful chasm of the Great Stack? Where can Uncle Wilfred find half an army and will they be in time? How can Lifandoy be saved from environmental ruin? Where is the lost gold; and how have Tim and Jessica changed after nearly losing each other?

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