The Dinosaur Artist

Excellent book. Enormously detailed. I learned a lot about the history of paleontology in the US, UK and Mongolia, Mongolian history, politics and customs, laws governing fossils and that if you sink a cypress log in a river for 100 years it becomes very valuable.
There are stories of a bunch of interesting people on several continents.
All this and more from a story that was at it's essence just about a guy arrested for smuggling a dinosaur fossil.