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Retired racehorse jockey and Vietnam veteran Anse Caulfield rescues exotic big cats, elephants, and other creatures for Little Eden, a wildlife sanctuary near the abandoned ruins of a failed development on the Georgia coast. But when Anses prized lion escapes, he becomes obsessed with replacing hereven if the means of rescue arent exactly legal. Anse is joined by Malaya, a former soldier who hunted rhino and elephant poachers in Africa Lope, whose training in falconry taught him to pilot surveillance drones and Tyler, a veterinarian who has found a place in Anses obsessive world. From the rhino wars of Africa to the battle for the Baghdad Zoo, from the edges of the Okefenokee Swamp to a remote private island off the Georgia coast, Anse and his team battle an underworld of smugglers, gamblers, breeders, trophy hunters, and others who exploit exotic game. Pride of Eden is Taylor Brown's brilliant fever dream of a novel: set on the eroding edge of civilization, rooted in dramatic events linked not only with each characters past, but to the prehistory of America, where great creatures roamed the continent and continue to inhabit our collective imagination.