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    What It's Like To Be Held Hostage By Somali Pirates For 2 1/2 Years

    Journalist Michael Scott Moore went to East Africa to write about piracy. Then he got kidnapped and imprisoned for 977 days. The Desert and the Sea chronicles his incredible ordeal.
    by Ari Shapiro Jul 24, 2018 4 minutes

    Michael Scott Moore is a journalist who traveled to Somalia to write a book about the history of piracy in the horn of Africa. It did not go as planned.

    The title of his new book tells you what happened. It's called The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast.

    Moore's ordeal began just after he dropped off a colleague at a small airport in Somalia. As he was heading back into town, his car came upon a truck full of armed men.

    "The 12-or-so gunmen on the back came off the flatbed and around

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