Fire Weather

John Vaillant uses that inferno as the spine of Fire Weather, a gripping account of a single catastrophe that opens into the larger story of fire, fossil fuels and a warming planet. He moves from the minute-by-minute terror of the burn to the chemistry of combustion and the history of an industry that helped create the conditions for its own undoing.

Vaillant writes with a reporter's precision and a storyteller's momentum, so that even the science reads like suspense. intendle recommends it as one of the essential climate books of the decade - terrifying, lucid and impossible to dismiss.