Seized! A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Max Hardberger

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ISBN 10: 1857885562 ISBN 13: 9781857885569

Casa editrice: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2010

Riassunto

Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a professional ship extractor, he risks death and imprisonment in dangerous third-world ports to steal ships from modern buccaneers and corrupt governments and deliver them back to their rightful owners. In the course of his adventures, he's had to outwit resourceful crime families, subdue armed soldiers, and turn the tables on clever con artists. He's escaped imprisonment in Venezuela and avoided death at the hands of the Russian mafia. Because Max shuns the use of force, the ingenious methods he must use to accomplish his missions are the stuff of legend he's employed a witch doctor in Haiti, tricked armed guards off a ship in Honduras, and rented a brothel in Mexico, all to thwart the designs of ship-thieves. Seized! is an intense, fast-paced window on the underbelly of ocean shipping, where all power comes from the barrel of a gun, and the only law is the law of survival.

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"Max Hardberger, maritime repo man extraordinaire ... Using a combination of ingenuity, stealth and good old-fashioned derring-do, he has made his name retaking vessels which have been hijacked or which, through local corruption, are impounded by authorities hungry for bribes."
– Sunday Express

"With most people, the longer you spend talking to them, the more normal they appear. With Hardberger, the reverse applies. Just when you think you've heard it all, he comes up with something wilder ... Over the years, he's distracted crews with prostitutes and witch doctors, bribed officials to look the other way, conned Russian mobsters and hidden from naval radar by riding out thunderstorms at sea; he's even taken a 10,000-tonne freighter out of Haiti while the 2004 revolution was going on around him."
– Guardian

"Required reading, fascinating. Maritime Repo Man Hardberger does it tough; his life is flown by the seat of his pants, or shipped, much like his profession ... This book delivers."
– Paul Carter, bestselling author of Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs and This Is Not A Drill

"In this heart-stopping account of his work recovering stolen (or otherwise illegally-seized) ships from 'hellhole' ports, commercial captain Hardberger proves himself tough as a tank and articulate as a poet ... [He] has a seafarer's gift for atmospheric storytelling, layering details to create a sense of place, history, and foreboding ... Hardberger's escapades make undeniably fun reading."
– Publishers Weekly

"One of the strengths of Hardberger's book is his prose, which is lucid, entertaining and dramatic."
--– Daniel Sekulich, author of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern Day Pirates

In this heart-stopping account of his work recovering stolen (or otherwise illegally-seized) ships from "hellhole" ports, commercial captain Hardberger proves himself tough as a tank and articulate as a poet....[he] has a seafarer's gift for atmospheric storytelling, layering details to create a sense of place, history, and foreboding...Hardberger's escapades make undeniably fun reading. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

One of the strengths of Hardberger's book is his prose, which is lucid, entertaining and dramatic... --Daniel Sekulich, author of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern Day Pirates (added by author)

Descrizione del libro:

Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed exposé of the seedy underworld of international shipping.

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• Editore: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1857885562
• ISBN 13: 9781857885569
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288