Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens and the Lives it Changed Forever

After 123 years of inactivity, a swarm of earthquakes signals that America's youngest and most dangerous volcano is coming back to life. At first, no one notices. Then, two months later, all hell breaks loose.

Frank Parchman tells the riveting story of terror, survival, and recovery through the prespective of eight people whose lives are overwhelmed by cataclysmic events, among them:

• A geologist who asks a friend to take his place at a forward observatory the day of the eruption;
• A badly burned logger who becomes an icon for the survivors, many of whom thought they were far from danger;
• Young lovers who are swept away in a massive flash flood of water, hot mud, and debris on the Toutle River;
• A rookie newspaper reproter who covers the story of a lifetime and shares the Pulitzer Prize;
• An angry woman who challenges a misconception - encouraged by politicians - that her brother and others killed around the mountain deserved blame for their own deaths.