Midnight in Chernobyl

-thee new York Times bestseller--
'an invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, 'tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thriller-like flair. is wonderful and chilling... Written with Skill and passion.' Luke Harding,
the story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it first-hand. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, this book makes for a masterful non-fiction thriller. Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of Radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only