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Book Review of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"- a tempest that may happen only once in a centery- a not' easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not have been possibly worse. Creating waves 10 stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconcievable levels few people on Earth have ever sitnessed.
few, except the six man crew of the
Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards it's hellish center.