The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras

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“An instant classic of Americana—a story of tragedy, invention, lore, science, and a most original roughly genius.” —Hampton Sides

“Masterful. This is what man versus nature is all about.” —Skip Hollandsworth

The Man Who Caught the Storm is the saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring, and an strange account of humanity’s high-stakes race to keep in mind nature’s fiercest phenomenon.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was once one of the most last true mysteries of the modern world. It was once a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s each effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider.

In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed unimaginable, it was once as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet while he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he in the end met his match—in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded—it upended everything he thought he knew.

Brantley Hargrove delivers a masterful tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph and tragedy. He’s taking readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. Following the tradition of Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm, Hargrove’s debut offers an unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural world.

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