Joshua Hammer

author of “The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird”

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In 2010, a janitor at a British airport noticed something fishy about a passenger in the Emirates Airline’s first class lounge.

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