One summer evening in 2009, twenty-year-old musical prodigy Edwin Rist broke into the British Museum of Natural History. Hours later, he slipped away with a suitcase full of rare bird specimens collected over the centuries from across the world, all featuring a dazzling array of priceless feathers. A book about our relationship with the natural world's most beautiful and valuable wonders, and one man's relentless quest for justice. A page-turning story of a bizarre and shocking crime.