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Fire on the Horizon

The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon

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Fire on the Horizon

By: Tom Shroder, John Konrad
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
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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.

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I was only 17 years old when this occurred and remember well the focus around the environmental impacts. As important as they are, the human impact was lesser told, but in my opinion more important. This is an incredible recount on what happened on that fateful night.

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