Slippery Beast

"It’s part natural history, part true crime, and buckets of slippery, slimy fun. You won’t be able to put it down."—The Nature Conservancy "Revelatory—and sometimes shocking... Slippery Beast  brings exhaustive research and interviews to bear on a subject of surprising richness."— Wall Street Journal Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Slippery Beast is a fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creature—the eel—a thrilling saga of true crime, natural history, travel, and big business. What is it about