Fire on the Horizon Large Print: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disast er

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A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Fire on the Horizon recounts the life of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig-from its construction in South Korea in the year 2000 to its journey around the world to its disastrous end. On and off the rig, Fire on the Horizon reveals the particulars of a culture most of us have never known, from the small maritime colleges to Transocean's training schools and Houston headquarters, and culminates in the harrowing minute-by-minute account of the fateful day, April 20, 2010, when the half-billion-dollar rig blew up, taking the lives of eleven people and leaving an unprecedented swath of natural destruction in its fiery wake.

Tom Schroder is an editor and writer at the Washington Post. Under his stewardship, the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in both 2008 and 2010. He is the author of the nonfiction bestseller, OLD SOULS, and lives in Vienna, Virginia.

"One of the best disaster books I've ever read...I tore through it like a novel but with the quesy knowledge that the whole damn thing is true. A phenomenal feat of journalism." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War "Harrowing...the best account yet of what went wrong." -- --Daily Beast