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The subject matter of this book is fascinating - the illegal, international trade in protected insects and how one undercover agent tracked down and finally arrested the world's Number One butterfly smuggler. It could have been as suspenseful and riveting as any great detective thriller but the writing style - immature and unprofessional - really ruined it for this reader.

When a non-fiction writer quotes a person word-for-word and that quote includes profanity, so what? the reporter is simply writing down what the person said. I have no problem with that. But when the writer injects a lot of profanity into the supposedly neutral narrative, it is off-putting and distracting. This book is chock full of profanity of this type.

Here are some examples from ONE PAGE of the book - none are quotes. This is the voice of the narrator/reporter.

"...he'd do what the DC was still d---king around about...it was the only way the case would be saved, and he'd had enough of the bull----...Even better, he would appear to be even more of a bad--s...the perp would think Ted Nelson had his sh-- squared away..."

I found it unprofessional, unnecessary to the story, and crude. My first review was deleted by Amazon because I wrote out the actual words. That ought to tell you something.

Kojima, the smuggler, was sex-obsessed and perverted. This comes out in the book in quotes and descriptions of events but there is nothing explicit. Just and FYI for parents and teachers.

Great True Crime subject. Lousy writing.


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Winged Obsession The Pursuit of the World Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler Jessica Speart 9780061772436 Books Reviews

Well worth reading. Also learned about things I didn't even know was done such as selling butterflies. Would recommend to anyone interested in our natural resources.
This was a book I couldn’t put down. It was an absolutely fascinating look at the unknown to me world of butterfly smuggling. The author did an amazing job telling the story in a way you had to read just one more paragraph and then another.
Winged Obsession is as much about the author,Jessica Spearts' dedication to our planet and it's diverse
species as it is a expose of the horrendous and Illicit trapping and selling of endangered and rare insect
species by Yoshi Kojima, the most notorious dealer of insect rarities.

While Kojima is the focus of this amazing and eye-opening real life story, the game of "Chess" between U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Agent Ed Newcomer and Kojima as he attempts to capture him, is intriguing .

Jessica Speart has written ten books about Rachael Porter, a fictional U.S. Agent, dedicated to stopping
illegal animal trading .Jessicas' research took her throughout the United States, and she spent many hours with these Overworked and dedicated people.

Winged Obsession is the culmination of her years of ,in the field research, and makes the point that
in this strange world of the Obsessed,truth Is stranger than fiction.

This is a must read for anyone who cares about the life on the Earth, no matter how small.
I understand that we need to protect the environment and putting butterfly smugglers out of business is certainly a good idea. This book's focus on one smuggler and one agent demonstrates just how time consuming and ineffective our ability to protect our scarce natural resources can be. The book details a dogged pursuit of one smuggler and the relatively minor punishment he received. IMHO putting that effort and money into preserving ecosystems and education will do far more protect the resource than putting one smuggler in jail. In an effort to write a compelling tale, the author Jessica Speart exaggerates the risk and difficulty of pursuing one smuggler, but does illuminate some of the bureaucratic details that can make undercover operations difficult.

The book is an interesting tale of the law enforcement process, but ultimately reveals we need a more efficient process to protect the wonders of nature.
The story of Hisayoshi Yojima, world-class butterfly and beetle smuggler, and how he was caught and brought to justice is a fascinating tale; however, Jessica Speart's account trivializes modern day's problem of trafficking in endangered species, an issue so pressing that in 1973 many nations convened at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES). To date 175 countries have agreed to monitor the world-wide commercialization of plants and animals to insure endangered species be protected.

Speart's forte is the detective/mystery genre and Winged Obsession is her first attempt at full length non-fiction. While the story of how undercover Fish and Wildlife agent Ed Newcomer connived to ensnare Yojima and bring him to justice is a detective story, it is given but facetious treatment. The story needs a Susan Orlean for the telling, not a Walter Mosley...certainly not a Mickey Spillane ("The words shot through Newcomer's brain as if they'd been fired by a .350 Magnum"). Speart's use of cliches and the vernacular detract and distract from what should be rendered as a serious issue. We are told,"...he [Newcomer] was as popular with other dealers as a hooker at a DAR party." Attractive women are "babes," collectors go "gaga" over rare specimens. And when was the last time an author used the word "moola" in serious non-fiction?

In fact Winged Obsession is structured more like a work of fiction than non. Speart could have helped her readers by including a table of contents. Also, a bibliography (i.e. the author mentions the book The Endangered Swallowtails of the World in passing but there is no information about the text beyond this singular reference) would assist those who wished to pursue a more in-depth exploration of her subject. Perhaps because Speart's priority is storytelling, not research, Winged Obsession lacks an index. The author alludes to numerous CITES Appendix I and II butterflies without listing them in alphabetical order per Appendix, ignoring further information (this lep enthusiast would have welcomed additional facts such as common names, habitat, for instance) about these exotics.

As if she did not have enough material for the Newcomer/Yojima conflict, Speart included Newcomber's second case, the roller pigeon culture vs. protected raptors. Perhaps she chose to make the point a law enforcement officer is case-overloaded or wished to highlight the special assignments Fish and Wildlife personnel handle in their day-to-day work. Regardless, Speart's primary subject was Yojima and his illegal insect trafficking and the addition of the roller pigeon case seemed to this reader a distracting filler.

To me, the most intriguing part of Winged Obsession (Yoshi, by the way, had other "obsessions" besides butterflies) was the last chapter, "Journey to Japan," when the author travels to the Land of the Rising Sun and has a face-to-face meeting with Yoshi. This chapter, in my opinion, is the most authentic, the most candid, an account of a human-to-human encounter, sans the pulp fiction melodrama. The most sincere statement in the entire book is Speart's last sentence when she shares her feelings about her subject "I think of Kojima every time I see a butterfly and say a silent prayer of thanks that it's still flying free." In the final chapter the author shows Yojima to be little reformed by his two-year prison sentence and has returned to his old ways, his network of illicit trade still intact, if not stronger than ever. Yojima even tries to entangle Speart, as he did Newcomer, in his web of deceit and illegal trade.

In these times of environmental awareness, Winged Obsession could have made a serious statement about the threats commercialization poses for the endangered species of the world. Sadly, however, Speart's account of a notorious butterfly smuggler reads more like a Who-Dun-It than a thoroughly researched work of non-fiction.
The subject matter of this book is fascinating - the illegal, international trade in protected insects and how one undercover agent tracked down and finally arrested the world's Number One butterfly smuggler. It could have been as suspenseful and riveting as any great detective thriller but the writing style - immature and unprofessional - really ruined it for this reader.

When a non-fiction writer quotes a person word-for-word and that quote includes profanity, so what? the reporter is simply writing down what the person said. I have no problem with that. But when the writer injects a lot of profanity into the supposedly neutral narrative, it is off-putting and distracting. This book is chock full of profanity of this type.

Here are some examples from ONE PAGE of the book - none are quotes. This is the voice of the narrator/reporter.

"...he'd do what the DC was still d---king around about...it was the only way the case would be saved, and he'd had enough of the bull----...Even better, he would appear to be even more of a bad--s...the perp would think Ted Nelson had his sh-- squared away..."

I found it unprofessional, unnecessary to the story, and crude. My first review was deleted by because I wrote out the actual words. That ought to tell you something.

Kojima, the smuggler, was sex-obsessed and perverted. This comes out in the book in quotes and descriptions of events but there is nothing explicit. Just and FYI for parents and teachers.

Great True Crime subject. Lousy writing.