The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier Audiobook (Free)

‘A riveting, terrifying, thrilling story of the netherworld that few people find out about, and fewer will ever find . The soul of this book is really as crazy as the sea itself.’ –Susan Casey, best-selling writer of The Wave: In search of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants from the Ocean

A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a huge, lawless and rampantly felony world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

You can find few remaining frontiers on our world. But perhaps the wildest, and least grasped, about The Outlaw Sea: Journeys Over the Last Untamed Frontier will be the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no very clear international authority, these immense parts of treacherous water play sponsor to rampant criminality and exploitation.

Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo guys, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion suppliers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways — drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of kilometers from shoreline, Ian Urbina introduces us towards the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of amazing courage and brutality, success and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of criminal offense and exploitation that emanates from the angling, oil and shipping and delivery industries, and on which the world’s economies rely.

Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this original function of reportage brings fully into look at for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating globe that connects people, a place where anyone can do anything because nobody is watching.