The Desert and the Sea

The “highly addictive” international bestseller, “an amazing true-life thriller, one of the most suspenseful books written in recent years” (Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author). In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kid