Fire on the horizon : the untold story of the Gulf oil disaster / by John Konrad and Tom Shroder.
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 270 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0062063006 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0062063014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0062063022 (e-book)
- 9780062063007 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780062063014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780062063021 (e-book)
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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.
Draws on first-person accounts to examine the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and the offshore-drilling culture that laid the groundwork for the disaster.