Publisher's Synopsis
"Nine days missing--trapped in the dark behind rising waters in a labyrinthine of caves, with no food and their only drinking water leaking from the cavern walls--survival seemed unlikely for the 12 young boys of the Wild Boar soccer team and Coach Ek, a stateless orphan devoted to Buddhism and his young footballers. Yet, against the odds, a team of determined divers traversed floodwaters and narrow cave ways to find them all, alive and hopeful. In Miracle in the Cave, journalist Liam Cochrane, who reported the story for the Australian Broadcast Corporation, recounts this riveting, race-against-the-clock story, describing in never-before-reported detail the journey of the boys and Coach Ek within the cave and how the rescue unfolded outside--from the contentious political negotiations to the early misadventure that halted the whole operation for several crucial hours and the death of a Thai Navy SEAL diver"--
