DEAD IN THE WATER: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Author: Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
Publisher: Portfolio
Price: $27
Pages: 288
Surely the first clue that something shifty was afoot was when the crew of the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso helped the hijackers to board.
Somali pirates had demonstrated in the early 2000s that it was possible to overcome the defences of large oceangoing ships with grappling hooks and ropes, but it wasn’t easy work. The Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged Brillante, an oil tanker as long as three football fields, with a deck 200 feet above the water, was equipped with water