Time Bandit (27 page)

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.

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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.
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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