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A lucid, hard-hitting indictment of BP's ingrained greed and irresponsibility. -- Publishers Weekly The value in reading a book like this is to realize that what multinational corporations do can affect not only their employees but also whole towns and, in the case of the Gulf oil spill, vast regions of the country. . . . A very readable and engaging explanation of the kind of business culture that makes the mistakes that result in what happened on the Deepwater Horizon . . . . It's a story that needs telling. -- Kalamazoo Gazette (Michigan) Tightly written, concise investigative journalism. -- Booklist A lucid, hard-hitting indictment of BP's ingrained greed and irresponsibility. Publishers Weekly The value in reading a book like this is to realize that what multinational corporations do can affect not only their employees but also whole towns and, in the case of the Gulf oil spill, vast regions of the country. . . . A very readable and engaging explanation of the kind of business culture that makes the mistakes that result in what happened on the Deepwater Horizon. . . . It's a story that needs telling. Kalamazoo Gazette (Michigan) Tightly written, concise investigative journalism. Booklist . ..a lucid, hard-hitting indictment of BP's ingrained greed and irresponsibility... - Publishers Weekly

A lucid, hard-hitting indictment of BP's ingrained greed and irresponsibility. -- Publishers Weekly The value in reading a book like this is to realize that what multinational corporations do can affect not only their employees but also whole towns and, in the case of the Gulf oil spill, vast regions of the country. . . . A very readable and engaging explanation of the kind of business culture that makes the mistakes that result in what happened on the Deepwater Horizon . . . . It's a story that needs telling. -- Kalamazoo Gazette (Michigan) Tightly written, concise investigative journalism. -- Booklist

A lucid, hard-hitting indictment of BP's ingrained greed and irresponsibility. Publishers Weekly The value in reading a book like this is to realize that what multinational corporations do can affect not only their employees but also whole towns and, in the case of the Gulf oil spill, vast regions of the country. . . . A very readable and engaging explanation of the kind of business culture that makes the mistakes that result in what happened on the Deepwater Horizon. . . . It's a story that needs telling. Kalamazoo Gazette (Michigan) Tightly written, concise investigative journalism. Booklist

<p>. ..a lucid, hard-hitting indictment of BP's ingrained greed and irresponsibility... - Publishers Weekly

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Mike Magner has been a journalist for more than 35 years, including 10 years as a reporter at the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Gazette, 15 years in the Washington Bureau for Newhouse Newspapers, and four years as an editor and writer at the National Journal. He was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, graduated from Georgetown University, and lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife, son and daughter. He began reporting on BP's refinery pollution in Neodesha, Kansas, in 2002 and continues to follow the community's efforts to require a cleanup of the contaminated site.

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