- Published: 17 September 2013
- ISBN: 9780241003763
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
Command and Control
- Published: 17 September 2013
- ISBN: 9780241003763
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
A work with the multi-layered density of an ambitiously conceived novel
John Lloyd, Financial Times
Command and Control is how non-fiction should be written ... By a miracle of information management, Schlosser has synthesized a huge archive of material, including government reports, scientific papers, and a substantial historical and polemical literature on nukes, and transformed it into a crisp narrative covering more than fifty years of scientific and political change. And he has interwoven that narrative with a hair-raising, minute-by-minute account of an accident at a Titan II missile silo in Arkansas, in 1980, which he renders in the manner of a techno-thriller
New Yorker
The strength of Schlosser's writing derives from his ability to carry a wealth of startling detail on a confident narrative path
Ed Pilkington, Guardian
Disquieting but riveting ... fascinating ... Schlosser's readers (and he deserves a great many) will be struck by how frequently the people he cites attribute the absence of accidental explosions and nuclear war to divine intervention or sheer luck rather than to human wisdom and skill. Whatever was responsible, we will clearly need many more of it in the years to come
Walter Russell Mead, New York Times
Reads like a thriller ... A fascinating read and a gripping one
Justin Webb
[Praise for Eric Schlosser]: He tells us things we already suspect to be true, but don't dare think about
Daily Telegraph
Eric Schlosser may be the Upton Sinclair for this age ... He has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts
Los Angeles Times
Schlosser's reportage is as good as it gets
GQ