For the first time in my memory, I was unable to finish a book about a subject that fascinated me. Ms. Burnes tale reads like an eighth grade research paper. It is filled with inaccuracies: e.g. on average four tropical storms form in the Atlantic each year? There is no sense of narrative. She references the Perfect Storm several times, but the two books could not be more different. Junger's story was gripping, Burnes' is sleep inducing. It is truly awful. Instead, read Isaac's Storm, about the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston.