Last Train to Paradise - Les Standiford

The fast-paced and gripping
true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key
West Railroad-one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in
one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.

In 1904, the brilliant
and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island
of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean-an
engineering challenge beyond even that of the Panama Canal. Many considered the project impossible, but build it they did. The railroad stood
as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as "the Eighth Wonder of the World," until its total destruction in 1935's deadly storm of the century.

In Last Train to Paradise, Standifordcelebrates this crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition, bringing to life a sweeping tale of the
powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature's
wrath.