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Dead in the Water

Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry

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In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd's of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. Soon after his inspection, he was murdered.

Dead in the Water is a shocking expose of the criminal inner-workings of international shipping, an old-world industry at the backbone of our global economy. Through first-hand accounts of those who lived the hijacking—from members of the ship's crew and witnesses to the attacks, to the ex-London detectives turned private investigators seeking to solve Mockett's murder—award-winning reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the astounding truth behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history.

©2022 Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Law Murder Organized Crime True Crime Crime Thought-Provoking Detective Pirate

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a well written sorry that read like your latest police novel, expect as far as we know, it is real.
Easy going and really interesting for anyone that is willing to look behind the curtain of the shipping industry.

Well documented shipping industry "scandal"

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Tim Bentinck sounds awfully like Michael Burke, and told this story greatly: a story about gangsters clearly all in it together ; I think there was more to the murder than the book touched on, it's possible someone seized on the chance when the right motive presented itself. Definitely worth a listen!

Great story well told.

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Masterful telling of a compelling story while also lifting the lid on the wider shipping industry.

Superb

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Thoroughly informative and very entertaining. Excellent narration. The writers shed light on the murky world of shipping and insurance through the story of the Virtuoso.

Great story incredibly well told

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The level of corruption on a grander scale is shocking but the book does a good job of bringing it back to the individuals and human cost. Well worth a listen and moves at a brusque pace.

Shocking

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