Previously published as Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stroies of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free. The novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas. When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-underground passages filled with danger and that often felt alive. A masterwork of narrative journalism and a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit, The 33: Deep Down Dark captures the profound ways in which the lives of everyone involved in the catastrophe were forever changed. A Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award A Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Selected for NPR's Morning Edition Book Club

Prologue: Cities in the Desert 3Part I: BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN OF THUNDER AND SORROW1. A Company Man 192. The End of Everything 293. The Dinner Hour 434. "I'm Always Hungry" 555. Red Alert! 736. "We Have Sinned" 857. Blessed Among Women 1038. A Flickering Flame 1219. Cavern of Dreams 139Part II: SEEING THE DEVIL10. The Speed of Sound 16311. Christmas 17312. Astronauts 18713. Absolute Leader 20714. Cowboys 21715. Saints, Statues, Satan 22916. Independence Day 23717. Rebirth 249Part III: THE SOUTHERN CROSS18. In a Better Country 26719. The Tallest Tower 27320. Underground 28321. Under the Stars 295Acknowledgments 307