The Tears of Dark Water (Hardcover)

from muddyboy

A father and son embark on a long distance expedition on a small boat and are captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The first half of the book deals with the negotiations trying to get them set free. The second half of the novel deals with the lives of the people involved after the kidnap...

from Beamis12

3.5 A fast paced thriller that could have been torn from current headlines. Really makes one think. How little is known about other countries, their problems and their people. How opinions are formed based on incomplete news stories, biased journalists, governments that only tell us what they wan...

from labdaddy4

An excellent book, A tale told from numerous perspectives, At its core a story of Somali pirates taking an American and his son hostage after capturing their sailboat. This book has far too many layers to be a simple story of piracy and it's aftermath. The novel is a very a tightly woven, heartfe...

from Smits

Another really good Corban Addison novel. This time the adventure happens on the high seas when American Daniel Parker and his son Quentin are kidnapped while they sail the world in their own quest to bond. We follow a tense negotiation between negotiator Paul Derrik, the US gov't and the kidnapp...

from BettyTaylor56

Let me say right upfront that I wasn't sure about this book at first. What did I really know about Somali pirates? I wasn't sure I would find it interesting. But now that I have finished the book I am certain THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE READ THIS YEAR. (And I read a lot of books.) In "The Tears ...