Bad Ground

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pier 9 / Murdoch Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 318 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. This Is The Real Story Of Miners Todd Russell And Brant Webb And Their Deliverance From Entonement In The Depths Of The Beaconsfield Hard-rock Mine. Signed By The Author.

Publishers Description: Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating aftermath. The blast and rock fall which occurred one kilometre underground on Anzac Day, 25 April 2006, killed their fellow worker, Larry Knight, leaving their shift manager certain they were dead. Tony Wrights enthralling, often spine-chilling narrative begins with a masterfully rendered portrait of the small Tasmanian mining township where the drama unfolded, a township that revealed its deepest secrets to him. Full of portent, Bad Ground reads like a psychological thriller as it follows the many intriguing and moving developments surrounding its central characters and their families, above ground and deep below. Russell and Webb, who were wary colleagues before becoming trapped in a cramped and crushed cage, share explicit details of their gruelling 14-day ordeal. They give an uncensored account of the darkest first five days during which little hope was held finding them, dead or alive, and the profoundly changed world they re-joined when rescued via the tunnel that served as their lifeline for nine agonisingly slow days. Bad Ground sets a new standard for this genre. Beautifully crafted, complex and, in parts, explosive, in the finest storytelling tradition, Tony Wright has written a compelling yarn that will stay with you long after the event itself has been forgotten.

ISBN: 9781921208874