. >> next, peter laufer looks at the network of hunters, traders and customers who constitute the nefarious business of international animal smuggling. he spoke at village books in bellingham, washington. >> it's great to be here in bellingham on this gorgeous indian summer day and to be back here in village books, because village books and c-span changed my career. and i want to tell that story quickly here before i talk with you about this latest book, "forbidden creatures," which comes directly out of this bookstore. there's absolutely no question about it. i was here, and i don't know, chuck, was it two or three years ago now, i was here for a book called "mission rejected." and this week was much more along the lines of the kinds of books that i have been doing throughout my career dealing with relatively difficult social and political circumstances. and "mission rejected" dealt specifically with soldiers who came back from the iraq war opposed to the war or decided that they were not going to deploy and refused their orders, some of them going up to canada. and i was here talking abou