The Provenance
Inspired By One Of The Most
Riveting Rescue Stories of Our Time
35-feet above the floor of an unprotected construction site a woman lies pinned by a toppled 35-ton building crane. The world waits breathlessly as the dramatic rescue unfolds.
The question rescuers whisper to each other is, �How do we save her out without killing her?�
Danielle Danforth � The woman under the crane. How did she, of all the people in New York � who walk on the upper eastside near Bloomingdales � become the victim of this improbable accident?
Earl Latimore � The driver of the crane. Why, when so much is riding on his success as a driver, did the sidewalk collapse beneath his crane.
Jane Ackerman � The EMT, who stayed with Danielle throughout the accident, is so often the first person at the scenes of accidents that she carries bandages in her purse. Why was she missed by the crane? How did she get out on that narrow ledge when heights terrify her?
What fans say?
�One of the best novels I have ever read,� Rapp Star
�Impossible to put down,� Dave Johnston
Award winning Joan Meijer's fictionalization of the true story of one of New York's most riveting accidents.
If you like rescue stories - you will love the non-stop action of this tale - Scroll up and grab a copy today.
Sample:
Provenance Excavation 12:07 p.m.
The crane swung its load across the sidewalk and began lowering the mass of girders toward the bottom of the excavation site. The weight of the boom and the heavy material it carried rested fully on the wheels and bracing feet closest to the excavation pit.
Below those bracing feet microscopic cracks appeared in the sidewalk. Near the excavation pit, compressed earth began to bulge with the weight of the overload. The areas of weakness just above the concrete wall, which had not been completely reinforced because of those short rods delivered erroneously to the site weeks before, began to displace outward.
Just as Lou Zhornick could not conceive of losing one hour from his work schedule, so had Lou Zhornick been unable to conceive that 35-tons of lateral pressure would ever be exerted against the walls of his excavation pit before cross beam support had been installed to off set the below-standard workmanship. Now the things that Lou Zhornick had been unable to imagine were about to become his reality.
With a sound like a cannon shot, the walls burst and a seam of compressed earth spewed from behind the cement just below the feet of the crane. The sound of disaster, like a cannon in a small room, was followed by an intense silence. In the distance it was possible to hear the background noise of traffic, wheels on tarmac, impatient horns. At the building site it was as still as a forest, as calm as the sea before a storm.
Everyone who heard the sound searched for its source and found nothing immediately threatening. An eternity of minutes later, groaning like a wounded prehistoric animal, the crane slowly began to tilt over onto its side. It started in slow motion and gathered speed as gravity exercised its inevitable pull on the unbalanced mammoth.
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Riveting Rescue Stories of Our Time
35-feet above the floor of an unprotected construction site a woman lies pinned by a toppled 35-ton building crane. The world waits breathlessly as the dramatic rescue unfolds.
The question rescuers whisper to each other is, �How do we save her out without killing her?�
Danielle Danforth � The woman under the crane. How did she, of all the people in New York � who walk on the upper eastside near Bloomingdales � become the victim of this improbable accident?
Earl Latimore � The driver of the crane. Why, when so much is riding on his success as a driver, did the sidewalk collapse beneath his crane.
Jane Ackerman � The EMT, who stayed with Danielle throughout the accident, is so often the first person at the scenes of accidents that she carries bandages in her purse. Why was she missed by the crane? How did she get out on that narrow ledge when heights terrify her?
What fans say?
�One of the best novels I have ever read,� Rapp Star
�Impossible to put down,� Dave Johnston
Award winning Joan Meijer's fictionalization of the true story of one of New York's most riveting accidents.
If you like rescue stories - you will love the non-stop action of this tale - Scroll up and grab a copy today.
Sample:
Provenance Excavation 12:07 p.m.
The crane swung its load across the sidewalk and began lowering the mass of girders toward the bottom of the excavation site. The weight of the boom and the heavy material it carried rested fully on the wheels and bracing feet closest to the excavation pit.
Below those bracing feet microscopic cracks appeared in the sidewalk. Near the excavation pit, compressed earth began to bulge with the weight of the overload. The areas of weakness just above the concrete wall, which had not been completely reinforced because of those short rods delivered erroneously to the site weeks before, began to displace outward.
Just as Lou Zhornick could not conceive of losing one hour from his work schedule, so had Lou Zhornick been unable to conceive that 35-tons of lateral pressure would ever be exerted against the walls of his excavation pit before cross beam support had been installed to off set the below-standard workmanship. Now the things that Lou Zhornick had been unable to imagine were about to become his reality.
With a sound like a cannon shot, the walls burst and a seam of compressed earth spewed from behind the cement just below the feet of the crane. The sound of disaster, like a cannon in a small room, was followed by an intense silence. In the distance it was possible to hear the background noise of traffic, wheels on tarmac, impatient horns. At the building site it was as still as a forest, as calm as the sea before a storm.
Everyone who heard the sound searched for its source and found nothing immediately threatening. An eternity of minutes later, groaning like a wounded prehistoric animal, the crane slowly began to tilt over onto its side. It started in slow motion and gathered speed as gravity exercised its inevitable pull on the unbalanced mammoth.
The Provenance
Inspired By One Of The Most
Riveting Rescue Stories of Our Time
35-feet above the floor of an unprotected construction site a woman lies pinned by a toppled 35-ton building crane. The world waits breathlessly as the dramatic rescue unfolds.
The question rescuers whisper to each other is, �How do we save her out without killing her?�
Danielle Danforth � The woman under the crane. How did she, of all the people in New York � who walk on the upper eastside near Bloomingdales � become the victim of this improbable accident?
Earl Latimore � The driver of the crane. Why, when so much is riding on his success as a driver, did the sidewalk collapse beneath his crane.
Jane Ackerman � The EMT, who stayed with Danielle throughout the accident, is so often the first person at the scenes of accidents that she carries bandages in her purse. Why was she missed by the crane? How did she get out on that narrow ledge when heights terrify her?
What fans say?
�One of the best novels I have ever read,� Rapp Star
�Impossible to put down,� Dave Johnston
Award winning Joan Meijer's fictionalization of the true story of one of New York's most riveting accidents.
If you like rescue stories - you will love the non-stop action of this tale - Scroll up and grab a copy today.
Sample:
Provenance Excavation 12:07 p.m.
The crane swung its load across the sidewalk and began lowering the mass of girders toward the bottom of the excavation site. The weight of the boom and the heavy material it carried rested fully on the wheels and bracing feet closest to the excavation pit.
Below those bracing feet microscopic cracks appeared in the sidewalk. Near the excavation pit, compressed earth began to bulge with the weight of the overload. The areas of weakness just above the concrete wall, which had not been completely reinforced because of those short rods delivered erroneously to the site weeks before, began to displace outward.
Just as Lou Zhornick could not conceive of losing one hour from his work schedule, so had Lou Zhornick been unable to conceive that 35-tons of lateral pressure would ever be exerted against the walls of his excavation pit before cross beam support had been installed to off set the below-standard workmanship. Now the things that Lou Zhornick had been unable to imagine were about to become his reality.
With a sound like a cannon shot, the walls burst and a seam of compressed earth spewed from behind the cement just below the feet of the crane. The sound of disaster, like a cannon in a small room, was followed by an intense silence. In the distance it was possible to hear the background noise of traffic, wheels on tarmac, impatient horns. At the building site it was as still as a forest, as calm as the sea before a storm.
Everyone who heard the sound searched for its source and found nothing immediately threatening. An eternity of minutes later, groaning like a wounded prehistoric animal, the crane slowly began to tilt over onto its side. It started in slow motion and gathered speed as gravity exercised its inevitable pull on the unbalanced mammoth.
Riveting Rescue Stories of Our Time
35-feet above the floor of an unprotected construction site a woman lies pinned by a toppled 35-ton building crane. The world waits breathlessly as the dramatic rescue unfolds.
The question rescuers whisper to each other is, �How do we save her out without killing her?�
Danielle Danforth � The woman under the crane. How did she, of all the people in New York � who walk on the upper eastside near Bloomingdales � become the victim of this improbable accident?
Earl Latimore � The driver of the crane. Why, when so much is riding on his success as a driver, did the sidewalk collapse beneath his crane.
Jane Ackerman � The EMT, who stayed with Danielle throughout the accident, is so often the first person at the scenes of accidents that she carries bandages in her purse. Why was she missed by the crane? How did she get out on that narrow ledge when heights terrify her?
What fans say?
�One of the best novels I have ever read,� Rapp Star
�Impossible to put down,� Dave Johnston
Award winning Joan Meijer's fictionalization of the true story of one of New York's most riveting accidents.
If you like rescue stories - you will love the non-stop action of this tale - Scroll up and grab a copy today.
Sample:
Provenance Excavation 12:07 p.m.
The crane swung its load across the sidewalk and began lowering the mass of girders toward the bottom of the excavation site. The weight of the boom and the heavy material it carried rested fully on the wheels and bracing feet closest to the excavation pit.
Below those bracing feet microscopic cracks appeared in the sidewalk. Near the excavation pit, compressed earth began to bulge with the weight of the overload. The areas of weakness just above the concrete wall, which had not been completely reinforced because of those short rods delivered erroneously to the site weeks before, began to displace outward.
Just as Lou Zhornick could not conceive of losing one hour from his work schedule, so had Lou Zhornick been unable to conceive that 35-tons of lateral pressure would ever be exerted against the walls of his excavation pit before cross beam support had been installed to off set the below-standard workmanship. Now the things that Lou Zhornick had been unable to imagine were about to become his reality.
With a sound like a cannon shot, the walls burst and a seam of compressed earth spewed from behind the cement just below the feet of the crane. The sound of disaster, like a cannon in a small room, was followed by an intense silence. In the distance it was possible to hear the background noise of traffic, wheels on tarmac, impatient horns. At the building site it was as still as a forest, as calm as the sea before a storm.
Everyone who heard the sound searched for its source and found nothing immediately threatening. An eternity of minutes later, groaning like a wounded prehistoric animal, the crane slowly began to tilt over onto its side. It started in slow motion and gathered speed as gravity exercised its inevitable pull on the unbalanced mammoth.
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| BN ID: | 2940012413864 |
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| Publisher: | Joan Meijer |
| Publication date: | 05/14/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 274 |
| File size: | 236 KB |
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