When James Christodoulou, the CEO of a small shipping company based in Connecticut, found out that one of his firm's two vessels had been hijacked by Somali pirates, he was about to be swept into a life-changing drama.Serving as his own ransom negotiator, Christodoulou dealt on a daily basis with his counterparts in Somalia: the men who act as liaisons between the pirate gangs and the companies whose ships they've siezed.
Click below for an inside look into the minutiae of this secretive world: a fax from a pirate negotiator to Christodoulou, communicating a series of veiled threats. Note, too, the blocked-out figure at the top of the fax: the sum the pirates were then demanding of Christodoulou's company.
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