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By Jonathan Waldman

It's been referred to as "the nice destroyer" and "the evil." The Pentagon refers to it as "the pervasive menace." It destroys autos, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks condo fires, and approximately introduced down the Statue of Liberty. Rust expenditures the United States greater than $400 billion according to year—more than all different ordinary failures combined.
In an exhilarating drama of guy as opposed to nature, journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West, Florida, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to satisfy the colourful and infrequently reclusive those people who are battling our mightiest and unlikeliest enemy. He sneaks into an deserted steelworks with a courageous artist, after which he approximately will get kicked out of Ball Corporation's Can college. around the Arctic, he follows an incredible high-tech robotic that hunts for rust within the Alaska pipeline. On a Florida movie set he meets the safety Department's rust ambassador, who unearths that the navy's #1 foe isn't a international state yet oxidation itself. At domestic Depot's mom send in Atlanta, he hunts unsuccessfully for rust items with the store's rust-products buyer—and then tracks down a few snake-oil salesmen whose potions usually are not on the market on the Rust shop. alongside the best way, Waldman encounters flying pigs, Trekkies, decapitations, exploding Coke cans, rust boogers, and nerdy superheroes.

The result's a clean and infrequently humorous account of an missed engineering recreation that's as compelling because it is grand, illuminating a hidden phenomenon that shapes the fashionable global. Rust impacts every thing from the layout of our forex to the composition of our faucet water, and it'll ensure the legacy we go away on the planet. This exploration of corrosion, and the fabulous lengths we visit struggle it, is narrative nonfiction at its very best—a interesting and critical topic, introduced with strength and wit.