"The Orchid Thief"
by Susan Orlean
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679447393/wendysmall Meet John Laroche, orchid poacher. After Laroche's arrest
for stealing an endangered species of orchid from a south
Florida swamp, Susan Orlean followed him through the crazy,
competitive, and slightly shady world of orchid fanatics.
"The Orchid Thief" is the story of a beautiful flower and
the decidedly unbeautiful, but very entertaining, obsession
it inspires.
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Wendy's Mall