The Deep Dark (2005)
“His eyes stayed open, though he fought to keep them shut. Half of the mine’s day shift had made it out, leaving something in the neighborhood of eighty to ninety men trapped underground. Launhardt could trace most of Tuesday with nearly minute-by-minute precision, but other sequences were muddled by the swiftness of the unfolding disaster. His natural tendency was to keep the world ordered and neat. Everything had its place. Nothing was separate; everything was linked in some way—directly or ta...ngentially. But he couldn’t draw connections right then. There was too much to think about. Too much to worry about.
It was dawn and a little cloudy when Launhardt dressed to return to the mine. News directors and editors outside the district led with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s death, but to the people of Kellogg and Wallace and throughout the mining industry, there was only one story that really mattered. Launhardt churned through what he’d seen and what he’d heard had gone on underground.MoreLess
It was dawn and a little cloudy when Launhardt dressed to return to the mine. News directors and editors outside the district led with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s death, but to the people of Kellogg and Wallace and throughout the mining industry, there was only one story that really mattered. Launhardt churned through what he’d seen and what he’d heard had gone on underground.MoreLess
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