RUN TO FAILURE

The smartest, most fascinating and best informed insider's look at the Gulf oil spill tragedy. A rare combination of "The Perfect Storm" and "Too Big To Fail".

Author Abrahm Lustgarten has been investigating BP for years, and his deep background knowledge of the company, as well as the various bodies supposedly overseeing it, will inform every page of the book. He is also, as you will see, extremely adept at building narrative tension, which this story offers in spades. The result will not only describe the dramatic events unfolding in the Gulf, but place them in a broad context of regulations, policy and management failures. Offering business analysis, investigative environmental reporting, science based critique, and a warning of potential disasters to come, all on a global level, this will be the one spill-related project which will appeal to an international audience. Abrahm Lustgarten is a reporter at ProPublica, where he has written more than 60 investigative pieces. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire and Salon, among others. He holds a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, and a Bachelor's in Anthropology from Cornell. He was the winner of the 2009 George Polk Award and a finalist for the 2009 Goldsmith Prize.