![]() ![]() ![]() The text recounts the events, techniques, and diverse individuals involved in this struggle while retaining an urgency that propels page turns with bated breath despite the foreknowledge that the trapped team will survive, but one retired Thai Navy SEAL sacrifices his life. Instructive on many levels, the present-tense narration re-creates the hair-raising suspense and tension, rendering details of the extreme dangers of dive rescues and the seemingly insurmountable logistical challenges created by the landscape and heavy rainfall. The world watched as a daring rescue ensued. This book logs the 18 days that elapsed in the summer of 2018 as 12 boys-all members of the Wild Boars soccer team-and their coach were trapped inside Tham Luang Nang Non, or the Cave of the Sleeping Lady, after it flooded in northern Thailand. An in-depth account of a harrowing real-life mission that succeeds against all odds. ![]()
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