"Using Nye's firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, this book chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic"--

Brian Murphy is a journalist at the Washington Post. He joined the paper after more than twenty years as an award-winning foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Associated Press in Europe and the Middle East. He has three previous books, including 81 Days Below Zero, and currently lives in Washington with his wife Toula Vlahou.