Perfect Storm

A modern classic, gripping, horrifying and some say containing the best descriptions of a hurricane at sea since Conrad - except this is for real, not a novel. It describes the so-called Halloween Gale of 1991, in the North Atlantic, a once-in-a-100-years event, and the story of the fishermen, ships' crew, yachtsmen and rescuers caught up in the awesome power of the ocean in a rare fury. "No-one knows how bad it got for the Andrea Gail because she left no survivors and all readings on the NOAA's nearest data buoy went off the scale." 1997. PB. 225pp.