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"Here is the pitch-perfect pairing of subject and author, a gripping deconstruction of one of recent history's most terrible and vexing sea tragedies ... A meticulous forensic study that, in Foy's able hands, rises to the level of literature." --Hampton Sides"Fans of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air will love this exquisitely written and dramatic book. George Foy has an action story that doesn't quit." --Doug Stanton"Foy is an experienced mariner who clearly knows his stuff, which gives the reader confidence in his account, and allows us to get lost in an amazing story that builds to a wild finish." --John U. BaconIn the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing true account of the mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives.
About the Author
George Michelsen Foy was born on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. He has worked as a commercial fisherman, a magazine editor, a first mate on British tramp ships, and chief cream-puff transporter in a pastry factory in London, England. (Other jobs held in the course of a checkered career: investigative reporter, construction worker, political cartoonist, news photographer ...) . He was educated at University of Paris, the London School of Economics, and Bennington College. His latest novels are Mettle and The Art & Practice of Explosion (University Press of New England) ; a non-fiction book, Finding North: How navigation makes us human, will be published by Flatiron Books/Macmillan in May, 2016. A new novel, Enquête sur Kamanzi, will be published by Editions Globophile in Paris, France, in May, 2016. His short fiction has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Monkeybicycle, American Literary Journal, et al.: long-form essays in Harper's, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, et al. He was awarded an NEA fellowship in fiction. He lives with his family in Southeastern Massachusetts and in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at NYU.
