Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Cast of Characters

Chain of Command Aboard El Faro

El Faro Plans and Sections

A Note on the Text

Part I

  Chapter 1: The Clock is Ticking

  Chapter 2: Blount Island

  Chapter 3: Tropical Storm Joaquin

  Chapter 4: Third Mate Jeremie Riehm

  Chapter 5: A Hurricane Is Not a Point on a Map

  Chapter 6: Second Mate Danielle Randolph

  Chapter 7: Collision Course

  Chapter 8: Hull Number 670

  Chapter 9: Afternoon

Chapter 10: Captain Michael Davidson

Chapter 11: Question Authority?

Chapter 12: The Jones Act

Chapter 13: Evening

Chapter 14: Night

Chapter 15: Necesitamos La Mercancía

Chapter 16: Dawn

Chapter 17: The Raging Sea

Chapter 18: We’re Gonna Make It

Part II

Chapter 19: We’ve Lost Communication

Chapter 20: Search and Rescue

Chapter 21: Flight to Jacksonville

Chapter 22: Ships Don’t Just Disappear

Chapter 23: Profit and Loss

Chapter 24: The Truth is out There

Chapter 25: How to Sink a Ship

Chapter 26: Admiral Greene Clears the Air

Chapter 27: Portrait of Incompetence

Chapter 28: Mission Number Two

Chapter 29: The Proof is in the Pudding

Chapter 30: Voices

Chapter 31: Twenty-Four Minutes

Chapter 32: Spirits

Epilogue

Crew List

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

Index

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher