MÉGANTIC, A Deadly Mix of Oil, Rail, and Avarice, by Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny (2020 1st Ed.)

Author: Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny. Translated by W. Donald Wilson. Published by Talonbooks, Vancouver, BC., 2020, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 317 pages.  

MÉGANTIC, A Deadly Mix of Oil, Rail, and Avarice, by Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, is a fascinating piece of investigative journalism, which unfolds like a thriller, and reveals the inner workings of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. 

She uncovers how the disaster, far from being just an "error of a faulty system," was caused by powerful people and institutions distant from the town itself. 

The tragedy of Lac-Mégantic began far before the train's brakes failed; it was conceived in the offices of Wall Street hedge funders, of Dakota black-gold cowboy magnates, of oil conglomerates, of a political class entirely devoted to the interests of the rail industry. And when it struck, it hit a population which, while still in shock, found itself at the mercy of local predators.

The fruit of five years of work and interviews with nearly a hundred people, including victims and their relatives, Mégantic: A Tragedy in Waiting, tells the story of the disaster in three acts - before, during, and after - in an investigation whose ultimate goal is to prevent the preventable.

ISBN: 9781772012590  

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