Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry

by Matthew Campbell

Conner’s relationship with Zavos was even worse. Fairly or not, he saw a set of traits in Zavos that he’d encountered again and again in his dealings with corporate lawyers: absolute certainty, imperviousness to criticism, and a deep aversion to unpleasant conversations. What bothered Conner most was the way Zavos waved away his references to Mockett’s death, dismissing it as irrelevant to the litigation. In the legal sense, that was an entirely accurate statement. But to Conner, it couldn’t have been more mistaken in the moral one. He found he could barely spend time with Zavos without getting fed up. In his irritation, he began staring intensely at the lawyer during meetings, a habit so unnerving to Zavos that he asked Veale to make Conner stop. The