Seized throws open the hatch on the shadowy world of maritime shipping, where third-world governments place exorbitant liens against ships, pirates seize commercial vessels with impunity, crooks and con artists reign supreme on the docks and in the shipyards—and hapless owners have to rely on sea captain Max Hardberger to recapture their ships and win justice on the high seas. A ship captain, airplane pilot, lawyer, teacher, writer, adventurer, and raconteur, Max Hardberger recovers stolen freighters for a living. In Seized, he takes us on a real-life journey into the mysterious world of freighters and shipping, where fortunes are made and lost by the whims of the waves. Desperate owners hire Max Hardberger to “extract” or steal back ships that have been illegitimately seized by putting together a mission-impossible team to sail them into international waters under cover of darkness. It’s a high stakes assignment—if Max or his crew are caught, they risk imprisonment or death. Seized takes readers behind the scenes of the multibillion dollar maritime industry, as he recounts his efforts to retrieve freighters and other vessels from New Orleans to the Caribbean, from East Germany to Vladivostak, Russia, and from Greece to Guatemala. He resorts to everything from disco dancing to women of the night to distract the shipyard guards, from bribes to voodoo doctors to divert attention and buy the time he needs to sail a ship out of a foreign port without clearance. Seized is adventure nonfiction at its best.

Seized: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Scoundrels and Pirates While Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters

History

Hardberger, Max

Military

Broadway Books

Deadweight: Owning the Ocean Freighter

Palm Island Press

Freighter Captain (2nd Edition) 2004, A Novel by Max Hardberger, author of Seized.

Freighter Captain

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Pioneer Press]

In 1971, a young man flees the draft and the turmoil of the early 70's on the Sea Witch, an ancient sailboat so unstable and dangerous that he soon renames her the Sea Bitch. Six months of danger and desperation follow, on the high seas and in hellhole ports throughout the Caribbean, before he decides to return to the United States and an uncertain future.

The Sea Bitch: Dangerous Seas, Desperate Voyages

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Independently published

Ben Williams, a Mexican-American Vietnam veteran working on a drilling rig in Guatemala, has fallen in love with a rebel leader, Ixaak, and has joined the fight for an independent country in the Peten region of the country. He is soon drawn into an investigation into the Spanish Embassy Massacre of 1980 and a plot to assassinate "Coronel Muerte" ("Colonel Death"), the feared head of the Judicial Police. Infighting among the rebel groups and a mole inside the movement threaten to destroy Ben, Ixaak, and the revolution itself, but his fighting skills, ruthlessness, and raw intelligence, paired with the Maya sense of loyalty and dedication that drives Ixaak and his men, may prove a match to the deadly forces of man and jungle arrayed against them.

The Serpent God

Genre Fiction

Geentert, gekapert, gerettet: Der abenteuerliche Kampf eines Kapitäns der gestohlene Schiffe zurückerobert

riva Verlag

A Hole in the Ocean

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