Loved The Gales of November by for its unflinching disaster reconstruction? Let Into the Raging Sea by pull you deeper.
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- Corporate negligence exposed w/ black-box receipts
- Hurricane vs ship: minute-by-minute peril unfolds
- Working mariners profiled—no Hollywood gloss here
- Investigative rigor dismantles official cover stories
If you admired how Bacon stripped the Fitzgerald mythology down to weather data and bad calls, Slade does the same surgery on a 2015 container ship that never should have sailed into Hurricane Joaquin. She rebuilds the disaster from voyage data recorder transcripts and cargo manifests—the kind of forensic granularity that exposes how profit margins override crew safety. It's the same blue-collar heartbreak, just warmer waters and newer negligence.
The sailors here aren't legends yet; they're Filipino and Polish mariners clocking shifts on aging hulls while executives ignore red flags. Slade honors them by refusing to sanitize what went wrong.
This is what happens when investigative rigor meets the sea's indifference to corporate spin.
What Readers Are Saying
"a well-researched and powerfully written account...a gripping disaster narrative" — Joy D, Goodreads
"Investigative journalism at its best...will keep you involved from beginning to end like a good fiction book..." — David V., Goodreads
"The story itself is absolutely compelling...I tore right through it." — David Holoman, Goodreads
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