For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited brand-new work by Sebastian Junger will end up like stepping from the deck from the Andrea Gail and in to the inferno of the fire burning uncontrollable in the steep canyons of Idaho. This is actually the same careful prose taken to bear within the inner workings of a terrifying elemental power; here is a solid of individuals risking everything in order to bring that power under control.

Few writers have been to so many eager corners of the globe as has Sebastian Junger; fewer still have supplied such starkly memorable evocations of character types and events. Through the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone towards the logic of guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan as well as the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this brand-new assortment of Junger’s nonfiction will need you locations you wouldn’t dream of going to by yourself.