Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster

Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
ISBN-10
0062063022
ISBN-13
9780062063021
Series
Fire on the Horizon
Category
Social Science
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2011-03-01
Publisher
Harper Collins
Authors
Tom Shroder, John Konrad

Description

"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.

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