Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs

Andy Hillstrand · Johnathan Hillstrand · Malcolm MacPherson

May 2008 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by William Dufris

About this audiobook

The Time Bandit is the fishing vessel that Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand use to hook the "deadliest catch," Alaskan king crabs and opilio crabs, in the Bering Sea, a dangerous and mercurial body of water that can steal years from a fisherman's life. The Hillstrand brothers, however, are the real "thieves." They take valuable crabs from the sea while facing its dangers head on. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving sixty-foot waves, gusting winds of eighty miles per hour, unwieldy and unpredictable half-ton steel crab traps, and an injury rate of almost 100 percent. There are fewer than 400 fishermen of this kind in the United States, and early death is a common fate. But the Hillstrand brothers are drawn to the drama and adventure of life on the high seas, as was their grandfather before them. They don't complain about the risks and dangers-this is their world.

About the author

Andy Hillstrand shares duties with his brother, Johnathan, on board their family-operated vessel, the Time Bandit.

Johnathan Hillstrand shares duties with his brother, Andy, on board their family-operated vessel, the Time Bandit.

Malcolm MacPherson, a former correspondent for Time and Newsweek, has also worked on the staffs of New York Magazine and Premiere.

William Dufris has been nominated nine times as a finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award and has garnered twenty-one Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which also named him one of the Best Voices at the End of the Century.