When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a disastrous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the four intrepid Coast Guardsmen who braved this ruthless storm in the hopes of saving them. A spellbinding tale of courage and survival from the author of The Finest Hours.
Michael J. Tougias is the author of many true rescue stories, including Overboard!, Fatal Forecast, and Ten Hours Until Dawn, which ALA named an Editors’s Choice and Booklist praised as “the best story of peril at sea since The Perfect Storm.” He is also the coauthor of The Finest Hours, which is a major motion picture from Disney. A frequent lecturer on his work, Tougias lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts. MichaelTougias.com.
Alex Boyles is an actor and an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator.