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About the product There are few undeveloped territories left on our planet. But perhaps the wildest and least explored are the world’s oceans. Too large to control them, and without a clear international legal status, huge zones of neutral waters have become a haven of rampant crime. Slavers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, hijackers of sunken ships and buyers of confiscated goods, vigilant conservationists and elusive poachers, shackled slaves and abandoned illegal passengers. We are introduced to the inhabitants of this closed world by Pulitzer laureate Ian Urbina, whose dangerous and fearless journalistic investigations, often hundreds of miles from the coast, formed the basis of the book. Through stories of amazing courage and cruelty, survival and tragedy, the author shows a global network of crime and violence, entangling the most important industries for the world economy: fishing, oil production, shipping. …
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