John Vaillant’s new book Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast is more than just a series of dramatic interviews with Fort McMurray residents about their terrifying escape from the wildfire that destroyed 2,400 homes in 2016.
If the book contained only those stories, it would already rival Vaillant’s two bestsellers, The Golden Spruce and Tiger, which established his reputation for writing page-turner non-fiction.
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