Read the book, “A Storm To Soon.” USCG rescued 3 sailors, sub-tropical storm Andrea on 5/7/2007.

AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF SURVIVAL AND A DARING RESCUE ATTEMPT FROM MASTER STORYTELLER MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS

Seventy foot waves batter a tattered life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world's most dangerous places, the Gulf Stream. Hanging onto the raft are three men, a Canadian, a Brit, and their captain, JP DeLutz, a dual citizen of America and France. The waves repeatedly toss the men out of their tiny vessel, and JP, with 9 broken ribs, is hypothermic and on the verge of death. The captain, however, is a tough minded character, having survived a sadistic, physically abusive father during his boyhood, and now he's got to rely on those same inner resources to outlast the storm.

Trying to reach these survivors before it's too late are four Coast Guardsmen battling hurricane force winds in their Jayhawk helicopter. They know the waves in Gulf Stream will be extreme, but when they arrive they are astounded to find crashing seas of seventy feet, with some waves topping eighty feet. To lower the helicopter and then drop a rescue swimmer into such chaos is a high risk proposition. The pilots wonder if they have a realistic chance of saving the sailors clinging to the broken life raft, and if they will be able to retrieve their own rescue swimmer from the towering seas. Once they commit to the rescue, they find themselves in almost as much trouble as the survivors, facing several life and death decisions.

Three other vessels with 10 people aboard were caught in the storm, and only 6 survived. This 2007 disaster prompted one of the largest and most intense rescue in Coast Guard history.

Author Michael Tougias, known for his fast paced writing style and character-driven stories, tells this true saga in the present tense to give the reader an "edge of your seat, you are there" experience. A Storm Too Soon is a heart pounding read of survival, the power of the human spirit, and one of the most incredible rescues ever attempted.

"The three men are like soldiers on a battlefield, vastly outnumbered and outgunned, cut off from all help. They know they are going to be overrun, know they are going to die, but still they defend the little patch of turf, the raft." From A Storm Too Soon.