A riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity in that vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas.
Ian Urbina spent five years, more than three of them at sea, uncovering the stories in The Outlaw Ocean, which began life as a series of articles for The New York Times that won seven major awards. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times where his investigations have covered oil and mining disasters, sex trafficking, high-school shooting, criminal justice, worker safety and the environment. Several have been made into films, and he has been nominated for an Emmy. Urbina has degrees in history from Georgetown and the University of Chicago, and lives in Washington, D.C., with his family.
Gripping and shocking by turns … Most of the book clips along with
the pace of a thriller … stomach-churningly tense … as outlandish
and as thrilling as a heist film
*The Times*
Just incredible
*Naomi Klein*
Urbina has written an astonishing book about a world most of us
don't even know exists. These are dispatches from the lawless ocean
- of traffickers, slaves, heroes, gangsters, crooks and scoundrels
- which will amaze, enthral and appal you
*Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland*
A riveting, terrifying, thrilling story of a netherworld that few
people know about, and fewer will ever see. As Ian Urbina ventures
into the darkest folds of the high seas, his courage—and his
prose—are breathtaking' SUSAN CASEY, author of The Wave
*Susan Casey, author of The Wave*
An outstanding investigation of a global criminal culture on the
high seas … His rendezvous with contacts on at least one occasion
was arranged for 100 miles offshore through mountainous waves …
Little wonder the stories he tells have not been told before
*Guardian*
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