Rust
Jonathan Waldman
Simon & Schuster
It has been called &#8220;the great destroyer&#8221; and &#8220;the evil.&#8221; The Pentagon refers to it as &#8220;the pervasive menace.&#8221; It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty. Rust costs America more than $400 billion per year&#8212;more than all other natural disasters combined.<BR>In a thrilling drama of man versus nature, journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West, Florida, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to meet the colorful and often reclusive people who are fighting our mightiest and unlikeliest enemy. He sneaks into an abandoned steelworks with a brave artist, and then he nearly gets kicked out of Ball Corporation&#8217;s Can School. Across the Arctic, he follows a massive high-tech robot that hunts for rust in the Alaska pipeline. On a Florida film set he meets the Defense Department&#8217;s rust ambassador, who reveals that the navy&#8217;s number one foe isn&#8217;t a foreign country but...</BR>