Journalist Jonno Bligh is flying high with a bestselling book and a Hollywood Oscar. But along with the accolades he picks up a cocaine habit and a bad case of writer's block. Under pressure to deliver his next blockbuster, Jonno sails to the Indian Ocean in his yacht The Scoop Jon B . When a violent storm cripples the boat, he takes refuge on a beautiful remote island, where he vows to get clean. Unknown to him the murderous gangster BangBang Budiman uses the uninhabited island to hide the spoils of his heists in the notorious Malaccan Strait. Jonno watches in horror as BangBang and his crew leave two women on the beach to die. He manages to rescue one of them, a British woman called Annie Greenwood, and together they flee the island with the stolen loot, relentlessly pursued by the criminals. As BangBang hunts them down in the treacherous waters of South East Asia, Jonno and Annie are forced to come to terms with their own destructive demons - and a discovery that will change their lives forever. Dead in the Water is a white-knuckle, edge-of-your-seat story of romance, revenge and redemption.