Having seen the Trojan War to its bloody end, Alan Burdick finally sets sail for home, where his beautiful—no, wait. That’s The Odyssey. In this book, Alan Burdick investigates the spread of invasive species, venturing everywhere from underground lava tubes in Hawaii to a NASA spacecraft-assembly facility in Pasadena to…Detroit (he must’ve gotten tired of all the nice weather). He describes a staggering array of species—including the brown tree snake and the aforementioned feral camel—that are not only thriving in but imperiling the native inhabitants of their new environments. Could we be headed toward a world where the Indonesian python is as common as the housefly? Read to find out.