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Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan AwardWinner of the Washington Office on Latin America/Duke Human Rights Book AwardWinner of the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress AwardFinalist for the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFinalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismNamed a best book of the year by Slate, The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews & Amazon.comOn January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed.