The Fire Line
Fernanda Santos
Flatiron Books
<p>"In Fernanda Santos' expert hands, the story of 19 men and a raging wildfire unfolds as a<b> riveting, pulse-pounding account of an American tragedy</b>; and also as a meditation on manhood, brotherhood and family love. <b><i>The Fire Line</i> is a great and deeply moving book about courageous men and women.</b>"</p><p>- <b>Héctor Tobar, author of <i>Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free.</i></b></p><br><p>When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that would grow into one of the fiercest and deadliest fires in American history, the 20 men who made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots heard the call and sprang into action.</p><p> An elite crew trained to combat the more than 600 wildfires that raged that summer, the men of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were a ragtag family, crisscrossing the American Southwest wherever the fires took them....</p>