The perfect storm is a once-in-a-hundred years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island, Sable Island, and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace.
This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, but here Nature is an awesome and capricious power that transforms the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two, let along the 72ft swordfishing boat "Andrea Gail" with her crew of eight.
The book describes what happened when the "Andrea Gail" looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.
Now a major film starring George Clooney and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
