Fire On The Horizon: The Untold Story Of The Gulf Oil Disaster - John Konrad & Tom Shroder

A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm. In the spring of 2010 the world watched for weeks as more than 200 million gallons of crude oil billowed from a hole three miles deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Warnings of various and imminent environmental consequences dominated the news. Deepwater drilling - largely ignored or misunderstood to that point - exploded in the American consciousness in the worst way possible.