Fire on the Horizon

Blending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting, Fire on the Horizon is 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 direr in a region still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina—this real-time account of the disaster shows us just where things went wrong, and points the way to a safer future for us all.