Catastrophe: Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion. Author: T. Joseph Scanlon. Editor: Roger Sarty. Cover shows a faded map of Halifax with a bullseye over top of the explosion location. Below that is an archival photo of a man in a bowler hat and coat walking alongside a road of complete devestation with all the buildings and houses in ruin and laying as a large pile of rubble for as far as you can see on the street.