Seized

Out-pirating the pirates! The true story of a repo man’s battles in and out of the hellhole ports of the world.
Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok, and pit him against a rogue’s gallery of antagonists, including Haitian rebels, modern-day Caribbean pirates and Russian mobsters.
Captain Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed exposé of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a professional ship extractor, he risks death and imprisonment in dangerous third-world ports to steal ships from modern buccaneers and corrupt governments and deliver them back to their rightful owners. In the course of his adventures, he’s had to outwit resourceful crime families, subdue armed soldiers and turn the tables on clever con artists. He’s escaped imprisonment in Venezuela and avoided death at the hands of the Russian mafia.
Seized! is an intense, fast-paced window on the underbelly of ocean shipping, where ‘all power comes from the barrel of a gun’ and the only law is the law of survival.P/B 294 pages