Fire on the Horizon

<p>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<em> The Perfect Storm </em>and<em> War</em> </p><p>Blending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting oil rig captain John Konrad and veteran <em>Washington Post </em>writer Tom Shroder give the definitive white-knuckled account of the <em>Deepwater Horizon</em> 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. </p>