War of the Whales: A True Story

by Joshua Horwitz

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Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: "Horwitz's dogged reporting...combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative.... He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience" (PEN Award Citation).

Six years in the making, War of the Whales is the "gripping detective tale" (Publishers Weekly) of a crusading attorney, Joel Reynolds, who stumbles on one of the US Navy's best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound-and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge...Read more
  • ISBN10 1451645023
  • ISBN13 9781451645026
  • Publish Date 21 July 2015 (first published 1 July 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 448
  • Language English