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The story of the incident was reported in the 2010 book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Stephan Talty and Captain Richard Phillips, who had been master of the vessel at the time of the incident. The hijacking also inspired the 2013 film Captain Phillips.
1 Henry Every's career inspired, very loosely, that of Captain Ben Avery, the hero of George MacDonald Fraser 's 1983 comedic novel The Pyrates. 2  A television adaptation of the novel starring Marcus Gilbert as Avery was shown on BBC2 on 28 December 1986.