Lucky Devils

The secret history of a trio of gamblers who used homemade technology and their own ingenuity to outplay the house, raking in hundreds of millions of dollars and transforming the way games are played.

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.