Vergos soon dropped any pretense of secrecy among the men he worked with. Early in the summer of 2011, he gathered Plakakis, Theodorou, and the older sailor Protogerakis, who’d returned from Greece after getting his leg patched up, around a table on the Vergina. Vergos was in an upbeat mood, eager to impress his colleagues with the scale of the plan he’d helped devise. It was evening, and Aden’s lights were blinking on across the water as he began to speak. The vessel they were waiting for was a supertanker, Vergos boasted, not some little ship. It would be attacked by supposed pirates, who
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