Like something out of a novel

Yahoo! News - Japanese tugboat attacked, crew kidnapped in Malacca Strait Confession - I read brain-candy technothrillers. You know, Tom Clancy (when he was good), Dean Coonts, Clive Cussler ... brain candy. Heavily-armed pirates taking over a natural gas tanker in the Malacca Straight sounds like a Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler plot device. But then, so was the idea of flying a jetliner into a government building. Apparently this attack failed. This attack.