Lucky Devils

Kit Chellel is an investigative reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and co-author of Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy alongside Matthew Campbell, published in the UK by Atlantic in 2022. The book was the winner of the True Crime Awards Book of the Year 2023 and shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award. It was also a Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick and selected as a Book of the Year by The Financial Times, The Times and The Economist. Dead in the Water is in development as a limited series on a major streaming platform. Kit lives in West London with his three children.

'Lucky Devils is a fabulous book, perfect for the current moment. Readymade for the movies, its tale of the brilliant eccentrics who outsmarted the system offers vicarious thrills of the most satisfying kind, especially as dealt by the dexterous hands of Kit Chellel, whose prose is as kinetic as a ball on a roulette wheel. You can't keep your eyes off it.'