Thank you, Dino Sutherland, for providing your boat, Rivers Edge, to come to Johnathan’s rescue.
We are indebted to the good folks at the Discovery Channel, including Amy Hagovsky, who handles the channel’s publicity/ press, and George Neighbors, Discovery’s director of talent/ management. Thanks as well to Thom Beers, Jeff Conroy, and Matt Renner at Original Productions, and all their camera crews who have been on Time Bandit. You know who you are.
We owe a tremendous debt to all the people whose stories we tell in this book.
At Random House, we thank Will Murphy for seeing this project clearly from the start, and his assistant, Lea Beresford, who put all the parts together. Without our agents, Alan Nevins and Mindy Stone at the Firm, this book would never have come about; they have been tireless, and we cannot thank them enough. Their humor, dedication, and resolve have carried us over several obstacles. They are the best the profession has to offer. Finally, thanks to Malcolm, who traveled the Bering Sea with us in good humor and who, with a hook of curiosity, reeled in this book from an ocean of stories and tales.
And let’s not forget to thank Mother Nature, the best teacher we’ve ever had, and God, for keeping us alive against some stacked odds.
About the Authors
On board Time Bandit, their family-owned and-operated vessel, brothers Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand share the skippering duties. Johnathan, a resident of Homer, Alaska, takes the helm during the king crab season. When not on deck, he can usually be found on the back of his Harley Fat Boy. During opilio season, Andy sits in the wheelhouse. In the off-season, he can be found training horses on his ranch in Indiana.
Malcolm MacPherson is a former correspondent for Newsweek and the author of more than a dozen books, including most recently the satirical war novel Hocus Potus and Roberts Ridge, a nonfiction account of battle in Afghanistan. He lives near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia with his wife and children.
Copyright © 2008 by Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, with Malcolm MacPherson
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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All photographs courtesy of the authors except where credited
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hillstrand, Andy.
Time bandit : two brothers, the Bering Sea, and one of the world’s deadliest jobs / Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, with Malcolm MacPherson.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-50727-3
1. Alaskan king crab fisheries—Bering Sea. 2. Hillstrand, Andy. 3. Hillstrand, Johnathan. I. Hillstrand, Johnathan. II. MacPherson, Malcolm. III. Title.
SH380.45.B47H55 2008
639'.570922—dc22
2007052363
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