The Flight of the Stork — Jean-Christophe Grange

Louis Antioch, a young French scholar, undertakes a mission at the invitation of wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm to trace the twelve-thousand-mile migration of the storks from northern Europe to Central Africa after the birds mysteriously vanish one year, but his journey takes on a perilous new focus when Boehm dies of a heart attack under suspicious circumstances. 15,000 first printing.