War of the Whales: A True Story Audiobook (Free)

Winner of the 2015 Pencil/E.O. Wilson Literary Technology Composing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged confirming…mixed with crisp, cinematic writing, creates a robust narrative…. He has written a publication that is instructive and passionate and deserving a broad viewers” (Pencil Award Citation).

Six years in the building, War from the Whales is the “gripping detective tale” (Web publishers Weekly) of a crusading lawyer, Joel Reynolds, who stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection program about War from the Whales: A True Tale that floods entire sea basins with high-intensity sound-and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and problem the Navy plan, sea biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a secret mass stranding of whales near his analysis place in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb can be forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth.

“War from the Whales reads like the best investigative journalism, with cinematic moments of strandings and dramatic David-and-Goliath courtroom dramas while activists diligently hold the Navy accountable” (The Huffington Post). When Balcomb and Reynolds synergy to expose the truth behind an epidemic of mass strandings, the stage is defined for an epic battle that pits admirals against activists, rogue submarines against weaponized dolphins, and national security against the need to safeguard the ocean environment. “Strong and important” (The Washington Post), “brilliantly told” (Bob Woodward), writer Joshua Horwitz combines the very best of legal drama, natural background, and armed forces intrigue to “increase serious queries about the unchecked use of secrecy by the military to progress its institutional power” (Kirkus Testimonials, starred review).