Brillante Virtuoso

Utterly absorbing long read from Bloomberg on the hijacking of an oil tanker that turned out to be a massive fraud, and at times reads more like a film treatment than a shipping article. All the characters are present: Somali pirates, Yemeni rebels, a mysterious Greek shipowner with Mafia connections and an unflappable British ship surveyor; as are the settings: the tense waters off Yemen, the war-ravaged port of Aden and, natch, the Admiralty High Court in London. “Something seemed ...

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