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Seized!
A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates
and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's
Most Troubled Waters
by Max Hardberger

Paperback, 288 pp.
Price: �9.99
ISBN: 9781857885569

Out-pirating the pirates! The true story of a repo man's battles in and out of the hellhole ports of the world

Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok, and pit him against a rogue's gallery of antagonists, including Haitian rebels, modern-day Caribbean pirates and Russian mobsters.

Captain Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed expos� 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.

"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, author of Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs and This Is Not a Drill

Max Hardberger has worked as a ship's captain, newspaper reports, English and history teacher, crop duster, private investigator, maritime lawyer, flight instructor, ship surveyor, commercial aircraft pilot, sailing instructor, insurance adjuster, vehicle repossession specialist, filmmaker, oilfield mud engineer, stuntman, ship breaker and a drummer in a blues band, and is now the subject of a Hollywood film. He is the author of Deadweight: Owning the Ocean Freighter (1994), a textbook on ship ownership, and a novel, Freighter Captain (1998), a semi-autobiographical account of his adventures as a ship's captain in the Caribbean. Visit his website at http://www.maxhardberger.com

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