On a summer night in 2013, a runaway train loaded with explosive oil derailed in the small town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec. One of the deadliest rail disasters in Canadian history, Lac-Megantic stands as a haunting narrative of how the powerful profit from collective tragedy.
In this fascinating piece of investigative journalism, written like a thriller, journalist and social activist Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny reveals the inner workings of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster that killed forty-seven people, and the individual and corporate authorities responsible for it. She reveals how the tragedy, far from being just the "error of a faulty system," was knowingly caused by powerful people and institutions distant from the town itself.