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Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster (Hardcover)

by Stephen McGinty (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 290 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan (4 Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0230708064
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230708068
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 189,011 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'McGinty records the night the Piper Alpha oil platform went up in flames, dubbed the worlds' worst offshore oil disaster...


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'An account of the world's worst offshore oil disaster is a superb piece of reportage...'

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good ...but it could have been better, 12 Jul 2008
By Barton Keyes "barton keyes" (England) - See all my reviews
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What could have been a very good book is reduced to a good one by some very poor editing.
There are leads not followed up (why was Armand Hammer being scrutinised by MI5?); characters suddenly appear in the narrative having been introduced once 30 pages ago; there is occasional Boy's Own detail (do we really need to know the complete Mark and variant of the radar equipment on board rescue helicopters?) there is an over-reliance on acronyms.
The book would have also benefitted greatly from a few plans of Piper Alpha showing the arrangement of some of the locations where the narrative is placed. The author makes significance of the confusion occasioned by the darkness, smoke and maze of the platform's layout; his writing occasionally worsens the confusion for the reader.
But it's still a page-turner and a shocking story of incompetence, confusion, greed and heroism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ed Salter, 27 May 2009
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This review is from: Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster (Paperback)
I would thoroughly recommend this book to any manager, supervisor or HSE professional working in offshore oil and gas anywhere in the world. There's little better than learning lessons from the past. It is a very moving read and you'd have to be cold as ice to not feel something for those guys trapped, trying to survive and escape from the fires. This is not a book to be bought for enjoyment. It is a book to read to understand why, and I think Stephen McGinty does an excellent job at presenting the event to the reader, as if he was there. I could feel the heat from the pages, the fears of the men and the sadness of the families. A terrible tragedy and a very good book.
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