On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:25:43 -0800, "K Barrett"
wrote:

"The more research I did," says Hansen, "the more I came to see them less as
criminals than as pragmatic conservationists. You learn a lot in the orchid
world."

Truer words were never spoken - or quoted...

Someone should write a murder mystery or spy novel/thriller about the orchid
world. But no one would believe it.

K Barrett

Sandra K Moore wrote The Orchid Hunter in 2005 It was to have an
orchid on the cover until the editor and artist created another
'flower.'
... ".dedicated her life to tracking down the world's rarest flowers.
But finding the Death Orchid was different. The legendary medicinal
flower could save her dying uncle -- if she could keep the precious
bloom out of her greedy competitors' hands."