title: Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
author:  Rachel Slade 
description: &#8220;For sheer drama on the water, it&#8217;s hard to beat the tragedy recounted in Rachel Slade&#8217;s&#160;<em>Into the Raging Sea</em>. . . . a fast-moving cinematic adventure. But for all of the drama, the worst scares are in the epilogue. This sinking was no simple accident.&#8221; (<strong>Janet Maslin, <em>New York Times</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;A powerful and affecting story, beautifully handled by Slade, a journalist who clearly knows ships and the sea.&#8221; (<strong>Douglas Preston, <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Riveting.&#8221; (<strong>Sam Sifton, <em>New York Times</em> &#8220;Tastes of Summer&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;A sea disaster tale unlike any other . . . an exciting, terrifying, and deeply sad story.&#8221; (<strong>Gilbert Cruz, <em>New York Times Book Review</em> &#8220;New &#38; Noteworthy&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Harrowing, moving...a taut adventure tale...The depth of research and reporting, and Slade&#8217;s skill at pacing and selecting the telling details produce a richly detailed narrative, tense and sad and true.&#8221; (<strong><em>Boston Globe</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;In addition to a gripping narrative of a cargo ship&#8217;s tragic voyage into the eye of a hurricane, Slade explains the fascinating world of commercial shipping and the essential&#8212;but often hidden&#8212;role it plays in our economy.&#8221; (<strong>NPR, &#8220;Best Books of 2018&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;More than the story of how a ship was overcome by a storm, <em>Into The Raging Sea</em> is an allegory for what it means to be a part of the nation&#8217;s largely invisible working and middle class.&#8221; (<strong><em>Longreads</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Riveting.&#8221; (<strong><em>Entertainment Weekly</em>, &#8220;Complete Father&#8217;s Day Book Gift Guide&#8221;</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;With skillful narrative prose and sensitivity, Slade takes readers on the final voyage of the <em>El Faro . . . </em>provid[ing] a haunting intimacy to this maritime disaster.&#8221; (<strong><em>Booklist</em></strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Intimate, eerie, and gripping.&#8221; (<strong><em>Outside</em>, &#8220;Best Summer Books&#8221;</strong>)
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  ## II
  
  ### SEA WRACK
  
  The very circumstances which she hoped would set her free worked against Loyse
  during the next few days. For while Yvian of Karsten did not ride himself to
  Verlaine either to inspect the bride he had bargained for or the heritage
  which would come with her, he sent a train proper enough to do her honor. And
  she was called upon to be on show, so that underneath her outer shell she
  seethed with impatience and growing desperation.
  
  At last she pinned her hopes to the wedding feast, for then, if ever, there
  would be muddled heads within the keep. Fulk wanted to impress the Duke's
  lords with his lavish open-handedness. He would produce the liquid treasures
  of the hold and it would be her best chance to follow her plans.
  
  
  
  The storm struck first, such a wild blast of wind and raging sea water as
  Loyse, familiar with that coast since her birth, had never seen before. For
  the spray reac