{"product_id":"poacher-confessions-from-the-abalone-underworld","title":"Poacher: Confessions from the Abalone Underworld (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLocked up for poaching abalone, Shuhood Abader began writing his life story. For over fifteen years, he had been a small cog in a criminal industry stretching from the Cape underworld to China’s luxury seafood market. As abalone – perlemoen, perly – vanishes from the South African coast, Shuhood’s first-person account takes us right into the heart of the crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKimon de Greef’s postgraduate research on poaching led him into journalism, and today he is the pre-eminent local expert on the illicit abalone trade. He contextualises Abader’s raw, immediate tale by showing how the system works: from desperate fishing communities via gang strongholds on the Cape Flats, tik, guns and police complicity to the harbours of Morocco and Hong Kong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJourney with the authors through death-defying dives, blackmail, robbery, shark encounters, near-drownings, and chases by police and rivals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etells the story of a deadly black market; but it is also the story of one man, deeply conflicted, committed to his faith and searching for a better way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Kimon de Greef, Shuhood Abader3","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40307053985970,"sku":"9780795708671","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/141104_611e5fcd70de57.96837470_9780795708671_8a58390c-1d98-410f-b680-93c3861afff1.jpg?v=1671877403","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/poacher-confessions-from-the-abalone-underworld","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}