The Desert & The Sea

In early 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online and with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, journalist and author Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to research a book about piracy and ways to end it. In a shocking and cruel twist of fate, the 45- year old California native (with dual German and American citizenship) was himself kidnapped and taken captive by pirates. The Desert & The Sea is a riveting, thoughtful and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.