Midnight in Chernobyl

<p><b>THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER</b><br><br> <b>'Superb enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' </b>The New York Times<br><br><b>The story of Chernobyl is more complex more human and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it first-hand.</b> Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years as well as letters unpublished memoirs and documents from recently-declassified archives this book makes for a masterful non-fiction thriller.<br><br>Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning for a dangerous technology slipping its leash for ecological fragility and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only its own citizens but all of humanity. It is a story that has long remained in dispute clouded from the beginning in secrecy propaganda and misinformation.<br><br><i>Midnight In Chernobyl</i> is an indelible portrait of history's worst nuclear disaster of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will - lessons which in the face of climate change and other threats - remain not just vital but necessary.<br>Now Higginbotham brings us closer to the truth behind this colossal tragedy.<br><br><b>'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair . . . wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion.' </b>The Observer<br><br><b>'An invaluable contribution to history.' </b>Serhii Plokhy Evening Standard<br><br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020</b></p>