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Fire on the Horizon|Tom Shroder
Fire on the Horizon : The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
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"A phenomenal feat of journalism. . . . I tore through it like a novel but with the queasy knowledge that the whole damn thing is true." --Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War

Blending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting, oil rig captain John Konrad and veteran Washington Post writer Tom Shroder give the definitive, white-knuckled account of the Deepwater Horizon explosion--as well as a riveting insider's view of the byzantine culture of offshore drilling that made the disaster inevitable. As the world continues to cope with the oil spill's grim aftermath--with environmental and economic consequences all the more dire in a region still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina--Konrad and Schroder's real-time account of the disaster shows us just where things went wrong, and points the way to a safer future for us all.

  • ISBN-13: 9780062066541
  • ISBN-10: 0062066544
  • Publisher: Harper Large Print
  • Publish Date: March 2011
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
  • Page Count: 386

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