Journalist Michael Scott Moore never expected his research on the history of piracy in the Horn of Africa to include first hand experience.
He was in Somalia researching the book when pirates took him hostage and held him for two and a half years.
He describes his treatment, attempted escape and the mental gymnastics required to survive such an ordeal in his new book, The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast.