Poacher: Confessions from the Abalone Underworld (Kimon de Greef)

• Author: Kimon de Greef

Condition & Size

• Size: Medium (Format B. Typically 12.9x19.8cm or (13.2x20.3cm)
• Book Type: Paperback
• CAI Condition Score: 5/10.
• CAI Condition Description: Fair
• Observations: Very Light speckling on the inside covers

About This Book

Locked 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. Kimon 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. Journey with the authors through death-defying dives, blackmail, robbery, shark encounters, near-drownings, and chases by police and rivals. Poacher tells 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