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The Pirates of Somalia
Inside Their Hidden World

Jay Bahadur

Publishers:
Pantheon /Random House (USA)
HarperCollins (Canada)
Profile Books (United Kingdom)
Scribe (Australia/New Zealand)
Nieuw Amsterdam (Netherlands)

"A punchy and impressive debut. The Pirates of Somalia is a brave and timely book that reaches far behind the glib newspaper headlines to uncover the hidden world of Somali piracy."
―Justin Marozzi, author of South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus

Jay Bahadur is a journalist whose writings about Somali pirates have been published in The New York Times, The Times (London), and The Globe and Mail. He has worked for CBS News and appeared on BBC Radio multiple times as an expert on sea piracy.

From the Publisher (HarperCollins Canada):
For centuries, stories of pirates have captured the imagination of people everywhere. But the recent gangs of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking huge ships owned by international conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. The world sees nothing but opportunistic bands of local bandits, but Jay Bahadur, the only Western journalist to venture so deeply into this world, truly sees how it operates.

In The Pirates of Somalia, Bahadur ventures to Puntland, a region in northeastern Somalia, and tells of the pirates’ lives beyond the attack skiffs: how they spend their money, how they conduct business, how they think and why they risk their lives in often suicidal missions. In the remote pirate havens of Somalia, Bahadur sits down and talks with some of the pirates, their cheeks bulging with khat (the local drug of choice), their cellphones ringing as the men conduct their business. Bahadur also talks to some of the security personnel tasked with combating piracy, as well as with former pirate hostages who lived on their ships for months while awaiting news of a ransom.

The Pirates of Somalia is a major first book by a young freelance journalist who talks his way into one of the world’s most dangerous places.