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Author Comes Face To Face With Pirates

John Burnett is the author of Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas. In 1992, he was sailing alone across the South China Sea toward Singapore, when his boat was taken over by pirates. Burnett talks with Steve Inskeep about that experience and how it inspired him to study modern piracy.

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