Journalist Adam Higginbotham's book 'Midnight in Chernobyl' is a definitive account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. The book investigates how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Higginbotham draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and documents from recently-declassified archives to bring the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The book is a masterful nonfiction thriller and the definitive account of an event that changed history.