Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of FREEDOM, TRIBE, WAR, A DEATH IN BELMONT, FIRE and THE PERFECT STORM, and co-director of the documentary film Restrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award. He is also the winner of a Peabody Award and the National Magazine Award for Reporting. He lives in New York City with his family.

Books by Sebastian Junger

The Perfect Storm

by Sebastian Junger - Nonfiction

October 1991. It was "the perfect storm" --- a tempest that may happen only once in a century. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have witnessed. Except for the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards the storm's hellish center.