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Utterly compulsive & unputdownable
- the most exciting, authentic, & humanly moving of all the recent Storm books. Brilliantly paced & perfectly balanced... Carrier is a marvelously trustworthy narrator...A terrific book.
- Jonathan Raban, author of Passage to Juneau: A Sea & Its Meanings & Bad Land: An American Romance. A wonderful story. An extremely well-written account of the events as I knew them. I commend Jim Carrier for a magnificent job.
- Jerry D. Jarrell, Director, National Hurricane Center. In October 1998, the majestic schooner Fantome came face-to-face with one of the most savage storms in Atlantic history. The last days of the Fantome are reconstructed in vivid & heartbreaking detail through Jim Carrier's extensive research & hundreds of personal interviews. What emerges is a story of courage, hubris, the agony of comm&, the weight of lives versus wealth, & the advances of science versus the terrible power & unpredictability of nature.

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