Well-researched account of the disappearance of a fishing boat, lost with all hands, during one of the most destructive storms of the century. It's limited in a way, as Junger himself admits, because no-one knows, or will ever know, what really happened in the last few hours before the boat sank. He can only make surmises and try not to fictionalise what must have been a genuinely awful and heart-breaking end. Because of this central absence in the narrative, there's a lot of context built up around the story - what's happening to other boats stuck out on open water in the storm, for instance, and how various rescue attempts were taking place. And it's all interesting, but still... there is that absence, and it's a lot easier to be interested in the doomed ship than it is to be interested in paratrooper training or the history of sword-fishing or what have you.