{"product_id":"a-captain-apos-s-duty","title":"A Captain\u0026apos;s Duty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'It never ends like this...'\nRichard Phillips knew of the dangers. He'd said as much in an email to his wife.\nAnd yet 8 April 2009 began as just another ordinary day for the fifty-three year-old captain of the Maersk Alabama, the US-flagged cargo ship carrying food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program. Ordinary that is until - some two hundred miles off the Horn of Africa - Somali pirates, armed with AK47s, attacked and boarded the freighter . . .\nBut the pirates didn't expect the crew to fight back. And they didn't plan on the captain offering himself as a hostage in place of his ship and crew. And ultimately they didn't bargain on the plain-talking, tough-as-nails officer they took as their prisoner. What followed was a tense five-day stand-off and an escalating battle of wills that would end in a daring and deadly high-seas rescue.\nCaptain Phillips' astonishing story is of an ordinary man who did what he saw as his duty, and in so doing became a hero.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buy3X.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52911214461152,"sku":"9780857502469_Kitabay Jaipur_20-D2","price":30.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.carouselstore.co.uk\/products\/a-captain-apos-s-duty","provider":"Carousel Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}