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"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 swordfisherman, 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.

"For once, it wasn't Stephen King behind the Most Nightmarish Passage of the Year. The honor goes instead to Junger, for his excruciating description of the sensation of drowning. Worse, this is nonfiction.... Ferociously dramatic, vividly told--and thoroughly tragic."        -Entertainment Weekly

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"Mesmerizing... Packs and emotonal wallop"- Boston Globe

"A white-knuckle chronicle... A true adventure story" -Newsweek

"Excellent...Heartwrenching...So full of drama it is impossible to put down"-Sailing

"Powerful... Gripping" -New York Times

"The pages of this book crunch with salt...Good reading" -Boating