Challenger A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham is out now THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSuperb enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels springloaded with tension... extraordinary. The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex more human and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years as well as letters unpublished memoirs and documents from recentlydeclassified archives this book makes for a masterful nonfiction thriller.Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning for a dangerous technology slipping its leash for ecological fragility and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers not only its own citizens but all of humanity. It is a story that has long remained in dispute clouded from the beginning in secrecy propaganda and misinformation.Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of historys worst nuclear disaster of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will lessons which in the face of climate change and other threats remain not just vital but necessary.Now Higginbotham brings us closer to the truth behind this colossal tragedy.Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with thrillerlike flair . . . wonderful and chilling ... written with skill and passion. The ObserverAn invaluable contribution to history. Serhii Plokhy Evening StandardLONGLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020