The Red Flock

<p>Portland Power Couple Jed and Lexi Miller rabid birders hatch a scheme that turns wealthy friends into a crime syndicate known as the Cardinal 14 illegally importing endangered bird species for their private aviaries. For her 50th birthday Lexi wants a Cherry-Throated Tanager a bird she saw as a kid on a trip to a remote Brazilian rainforest with her anthropologist father. The cost for one of only 25 in existence is $1 million. Jed won't settle for less for his 50th. His sights are set on James Audubon's <em>Birds of America</em> a collection of bird paintings-including images of nine extinct birds-from the early 1800s which sells for $12 million at auction. When a bookseller and rare book room librarian turn up dead the FBI and Portland Police-with the help of Veterinarian and Angel of Mercy Jim Briggs-race to bust an international poaching ring and catch the killers before more people die.</p>