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| Dangerous Waters | 
| Author: John Burnett
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 1204955
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7
ASIN: B000GG4JFK
Publication Date: September 30, 2003
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Product Description
While sailing alone one night in the shipping lanes across one of the busiest waterways in the world, John Burnett was attacked by pirates. Through sheer ingenuity and a little bit of luck, he survived, and his shocking firsthand experience became the inspiration for this book. Dangerous Waters charts the resurgence of piracy in recent years and reveals why it poses a significant threat to our safety and security.
Today's breed of pirates are not the colorful cutthroats painted by the history books. Unlike the romantic images from yesteryear of Captain Hook, Long John Silver, and Blackbeard, they can be local seamen looking for a quick score, highly trained guerrillas, rogue military units, or former seafarers recruited by sophisticated crime organizations. Armed with machetes, assault rifles, and grenade launchers, they steal out in speedboats and fishing boats in search of supertankers, cargo ships, passenger ferries, cruise ships, and yachts, attacking them at port, on the open seas, and in international waters. Entire ships, cargo, and crews simply vanish, hijacked by pirates working for multinational crime syndicates; these modern-day ghost ships turn up later carting illegal immigrants to the United States or running drugs. Burnett probes this dangerous world of thievery and mayhem, from the life-and-death struggles of brave captains and their crews, to the pirate hunters with bounties on their heads, and to the shadowy groups themselves who employ these ruthless, modern-day mercenaries.
A dauntless investigation into a chilling phenomenon, Dangerous Waters is an epic, breathtaking modern tale of the sea.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 ENTERTAINING August 18, 2008
I bought Dangerous Waters after recently seeing the author interviewed on CNN. This book is a real eyeopener and is a must read for anyone with the slightest interest in international security -- our security. The fast-moving pace of the book makes this a great read. It helps that the writer also had his own experience with pirates -- he survived while many at sea today apparently don't. Well written and highly entertaining and highly recommended.
 Subject is great, writing style is awful August 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm on Chapter 4 and though I want to read about the subject I am really not looking forward to slogging through all the dreary swampiness of fictional embellishment packed in here.
The many paragraphs like the following make we want to throw the book out the window (preferably at the author.)
-"Donny could never quite forgive Vimala for refusing to leave the bridge, but he could not be displeased with her determination to stand by his side when the rest of the crew had taken cover. It was the defining moment of their marriage. She was a strong, intelligent woman and he loved that in her; he knew that while he commanded men and ships, Vim showed she had a will of her own."-
Dragging through hogwash like that I feel my brain starting to melt and turn into jello. Is this a journalistic book about modern Piracy or a bloody romance novel? COME ON!! Show me the subject matter, not all this foul fluff.
 Daniel Randall April 5, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the stuff that Randall & Cunningham do at Decature-MS ... I think the other big security provider is Hudson Trident. I don't think Blackwater or Dyncorp even touches it... it is very specialized.
important book for anyone December 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good set of stories that allow you to understand what people throughout the world must go through in order to deliver critical goods and services. you also get an all to keen understanding of how vulnerable we really are and that there isn't much effort currently to correct for this situation. What are the solutions for dealing with crime in international waters where no one has jurisdiction?
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas May 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book on the subject of piracy. Having been overrun by pirates myself in the South China Sea, I was extremely happy with John Burnett's story of this on going problem. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
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