The Day the World Ended

The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times –bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned . In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to