The story of one John Laroche, and the criminal world that surrounds the trade in rare Florida orchids. What started out as an article for Orlean's newspaper turned into what Anna Pavord of }The Independent{ called ...this brilliantly conceived account of obsession Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this magical exploration of obsession and the strange world both of the orchid obsessives and of Florida, that haunting and weird 'debatable land' of swamps and condos, retirement communities and real-estate scams.
