Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

The definitive account of April 26, 1986 — the reactor operators who didn't understand what was happening, the firefighters sent into lethal radiation, the bureaucrats who lied. Higginbotham spent ten years in the archives and with survivors. The result is a thriller with the terrible advantage of being true. The Soviet system killed these people as surely as the reactor. The secrecy made it worse.