Matthew Campbell is an award-winning reporter and editor for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, covering major political and busi­ness stories across the Asia-Pacific region. He has reported from more than twenty countries on subjects including crime, terrorism, climate change, and public health.

Kit Chellel is a reporter at Bloomberg and a writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. He has won numerous international prizes for his work, covering everything from Chinese state hackers and feuding hedge funds to shady Nigerian oil deals and Irish sectarian gangsters.

AWARD WINNING JOURNALISTS WITH A GLOBAL AUDIENCE: Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel are frequent collaborators who together have been investigating this story since 2016. In 2017, Campbell and Chellel received Loeb and Overseas Press Club awards.BASED ON A VIRAL ARTICLE : Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel's Bloomberg Businessweek article, "The Hijacking of the Brillante Virtuoso", remains one of the magazine's most-read articles of the past five years. Since then, their reporting has uncovered a trove of new evidence about the circumstances behind the hijacking, David Mockett's murder, and its aftermath. A PAGE-TURNER WITH HEART: Dead in the Water promises to be a riveting true crime story that shines a light on the human cost of the shipping industry. Campbell and Chellel reveal the shadowy inner-workings of international business populated by a compelling cast of characters-from gun-wielding pirates and grizzled cops-turned-PIs to villainous shipping magnates. The result is a very human story about the murder of David Mockett, and the quest to bring his killers to justice.UNRIVALLED ACCESS: Campbell and Chellel own the story of the Brillante hoax, with access to all its major players, including David Mockett's family. This book reveals never-before-reported aspects of the story that will make it a must read even for those already familiar with its events.

A Financial Times Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year

A triumph of investigative journalism. Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale

A fascinating read. Highly recommended! -John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood
 
"Truly one of the most nail-biting, page-turning, terrifying true-crime books I've ever read." Nick Bilton, New York Times bestselling author of American Kingpin

From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all.

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. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn t add up and Mockett would never answer them. Soon after his inspection, David Mockett was murdered. 
 
Dead in the Water is a shocking expose of the criminal inner workings of international shipping, told through the lens of the Brillante hijacking and its aftermath. Through first-hand accounts of those who lived it 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 and bring justice to his family award-winning Bloomberg reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the astounding truth behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history.
 
The ambitious culmination of more than four years of reporting, Dead in the Water uncovers an intricate web of conspiracy amidst the lawless, old-world industry at the backbone of our new global economy.