The Boys in the Cave, Matt Gutman
The Boys in the Cave, Matt Gutman
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The Boys in the Cave
Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

Author: Matt Gutman

Narrator: Matt Gutman

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/13/2018


Synopsis

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks—a pulse-pounding account by a reporter who was there every step of their journey out.After a practice in June 2018, a Thai soccer coach took a dozen of his young players to explore a famous but flood-prone cave. It was one of the boys’ birthday, but neither he nor the dozen resurfaced. Worried parents and rescuers flocked to the mouth of a cave that seemed to have swallowed the boys without a trace. Ranging in age from eleven to sixteen, the boys were all members of the Wild Boars soccer team. When water unexpectedly inundated the cave, blocking their escape, they retreated deeper inside, taking shelter in a side cavern. While the world feared them dead, the thirteen young souls survived by licking the condensation off the cave’s walls, meditating, and huddling together for warmth.In this thrilling account, ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman recounts this amazing story in depth and from every angle, exploring their time in the cave, the failed plans and human mistakes that nearly doomed them, and the daring mission that ultimately saved them. Gutman introduces the elite team of volunteer divers who risked death to execute a plan so risky that its American planners admitted, “for us, success would have meant getting just one boy out alive.” He takes you inside the meetings where life and death decisions were grimly made and describes how these heroes pulled off an improbable rescue under immense pressure, with the boys’ desperate parents and the entire world watching. One of the largest rescues in history was in doubt until the very last moment.Matt Gutman covered the story intensively, went deep inside the caves himself, and interviewed dozens of rescuers, experts and eye-witnessed around the world. The result is this pulse-pounding telling that vividly recreates this extraordinary event in all its intensity—and documents the ingenuity and sacrifice it took to succeed.

About Matt Gutman

Matt Gutman is the Chief National Correspondent for ABC News, and the host of the Saturday morning show Sea Rescue. A veteran journalist once held captive on the job, he has spent part of his career researching and reporting on human survival against impossible odds. He lives in Los Angeles with his family. The Boys in the Cave is his first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne

Several times as I was reading this book, my husband would ask me “But why read this? You already know how it’s going to end.” And I’d always reply, “You’re not going to believe what's happening right now!” In the summer of 2018, like so many others around the world, I was riveted by the media cover......more

Goodreads review by Tanja

A nail-biting real life thriller about the rescue of 13 soccer team members stuck in a flooded cave system. Of course, most of us were aware of the media frenzy around this mission during the summer of 2018, but I had little insight into any details. Even though I knew all the boys got out, the chan......more

This the story of the Thai boys and their soccer coach who were exploring an enormous and many-chambered cave in the countryside when the monsoon rains began, a month early, trapping them inside. They retreated farther and farther from the entrance until they were more than a mile inside, on a patch......more

Goodreads review by Hannah

Like many people around the world, this story fascinated me. I remember watching it on the news and praying for the boys. As with all news stories, you catch snippets and see just one small portion of the whole story. So I was excited when I found this book. The trouble with this book is that it gets......more