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From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks - a pulse-pounding page-turner by a reporter who was there every step of their journey out. After a practice in June 2018, a Thai soccer coach took a dozen of his young players to explore a famous but flood-prone cave. It was one of the boys' birthday, but neither he nor the dozen resurfaced. Worried parents and rescuers flocked to the mouth of a cave that seemed to have swallowed the boys without a trace. Ranging in age from eleven to sixteen, the boys were all members of the Wild Boars soccer team.
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I tell stories for a living at ABC News, as the network's Chief National Correspondent. I've covered the news from about 50 countries around the globe. I've covered wars all over the Middle East, disasters all over the world, and more shootings here in the US than I'd like to remember. Which partly explains why the rescue of the Thai soccer team from a cave last summer so captivated me, (and much of the rest of the world.) I felt compelled to write "The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand." It's about a rescue that should have failed. About boys who should be dead... and about the intrigue, politics and guts that went into saving the lives of thirteen people in Thailand.
