The Perfect Storm

A TRUE STORY OF MEN AGAINST THE SEA

"She's comin' on, boys, and she's comin' on strong," radioed Captain Billy Tyne of the Andrea Gail off the coast of Nova Scotia soon before boat and crew disappeared without a trace. Junger gives us the Halloween storm of 1991 and its effect on the sword fishermen of Gloucester, Massachusetts, with daring high-seas rescues, a history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched.

"During the long drawn-out and wholly convincing climaxes one reads with the most intense concern, anxiety and concentration; and if one knows anything at all about the sea one feels the absolutely enormous strength of the hurricane winds and the incredibly towering mass of the hundred-foot waves." Patrick O'Brien, author of the Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin series.

"Like victims of a perfect crime, readers of The Perfect Storm are first seduced into caring for the book's doomed characters, then compelled to watch them carried into the maw of a meteorological hell. And all the while, Sebastian Junger's compassionate, intelligent voice instructs us effortlessly on the sea life of the sword fishermen, the physics of a sinking steel ship, and the details of death by drowning. It is a terrifying, edifying read." Dava Sobel, author of Longitude.

"Every boater is drawn to storm-at-sea stories, and this one beats them all." Philadelphia Inquirer.

Paperback, with a new afterward, only $6.99 T14973

For a permanent addition to your library, also available hardbound at $19.95 T14109