VIRTUAL: An Evening with Journalist Matthew Campbell, Co-Author of Dead in the Water

In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set it ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor, 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.