{"product_id":"9780060956233","title":"The Last Run : A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Last Run\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Todd Lewan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world. In January 1998, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, a cataclysmic Arctic storm with hurricane-force winds and towering seas forced five fishermen to abandon their vessel in the Gulf of Alaska and left them adrift in thirty-eight-degree water with no lifeboat. Their would-be rescuers were 150 miles away at the Coast Guard station, with the nearby airport shut down by an avalanche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Last Run\u003c\/strong\u003e is the epic tale of the wreck of the oldest registered fishing schooner in Alaska, a hellish Arctic tempest, and the three teams of aviators in helicopters who withstood 140-mph gusts and hovered alongside waves that were ten stories high. But what makes this more than a true-life page-turner is its portrait of untamed Alaska and the unflappable spirit of people who forge a different kind of life on America's last frontier, the \"end of the roaders\" who are drawn to, or flee to, Alaska to seek a final destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Grade ‘A’. A spectacular maritime page-turner … one perfect storm of a book.”\u003cbr\u003e“A gripping account [that] reads like a novel.”\u003cbr\u003e“THE PERFECT STORM transferred to Alaska, but with a much more heroic conclusion.”\u003cbr\u003e“Blockbuster.”\u003cbr\u003e“[A] gripping sea rescue tale.”\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful story reported and told with extraordinary skill....will keep you turning the pages at a furious rate.”\u003cbr\u003e“The stuff of legends....A tale of genuine heroism...that you won’t easily put down.”\u003cbr\u003e“Exhilarating ... Immediate and terrifying ... edge-of-the-seat [reading].”\u003cbr\u003e“Nail-biting ... [gives] readers a sense of why the fishermen were willing to risk so much for .... so little.”\u003cbr\u003e“This riveting book has it all ... suspenseful ... dramatic .... and touchingly human and humorous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060956233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41034033823950,"sku":"9780060956233","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060956233.jpg?v=1647744880","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060956233","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}