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Outstanding update of this subject.
15 Aug 2011
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John Payne has done an outstanding job of bringing up to date the growing menace of piracy. His overview, analysis, and specifics of this world-wide problem are first rate. If you have read John Burnett's "Dangerous Waters" of 2002, and now read "Piracy Today", you will have a very clear understanding of the changes this criminal activity has seen over the past 10 years. The progress of modern piracy into the realm of business ventures is fightening, and Mr.Payne makes clear the threat it poses to world trade on a truly colossal scale.
It is disturbing that the public is largely unaware of this menace. Perhaps, now that Tom Hanks has contracted to do a motion picture about the Maersk Alabama incident of 2009, modern piracy will get the attention it should have had for at least the last 10 years.
It is disturbing that the public is largely unaware of this menace. Perhaps, now that Tom Hanks has contracted to do a motion picture about the Maersk Alabama incident of 2009, modern piracy will get the attention it should have had for at least the last 10 years.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Nautical collections need this
18 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas provides a powerful account of modern piracy: a billion-dollar business that takes advantage of inadequate international law and under-staffed ships to make a profit. Gangs armed with AK-47s and small rocket launchers have been demanding - and receiving - big ransoms and stealing valuable cargo: PIRACY TODAY documents the problem and comes from a seaman who offers accounts from real life. Nautical collections need this!
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Piracy Today
16 Jun 2010
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This book is current and anyone who is thinking of traveling in any of the danger areas highlighted in the text should read it. I have served in the Army throughout the world and think the protection of the traveling vessels is essential. The owners are not doing their job in protecting cargo and it seems to me it is nothing but an insurance scam taking place in East Africa. I think every ship should be armed and the crew trained to fight off the attackers. This book doesn't advocate that point of view but I do. It seems to advocate the current policy of paying and bartering cash ransoms for the vessel, crew, and cargo. We will live to regret such a policy. These pirates are able to adopt a current and changing policy to meet each occasion. I say use and teach the crew to resist the pirates and ncontinue on their way.
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