{"title":"Kevin Flynn","description":"\u003cp\u003eKevin Flynn's works offer gripping insights into real-life events, capturing moments of intense human experience with vivid detail. His writing, rooted in biography and memoir, brings personal stories to light with a journalistic precision that is both engaging and reflective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful narratives that explore resilience and tragedy, presenting history through the eyes of those who lived it. Flynn’s storytelling is marked by a commitment to authenticity, shedding new light on familiar events with compassion and clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"102-minutes-by-jim-dwyer-9780099492566","title":"102 Minutes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York — reading emails, making calls, eating croissants... Over the next 102 minutes each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived through it — until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf the millions of words written about that unforgettable day, most have been from outsiders. \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken a more revealing approach — reporting solely from the perspective of those inside the towers. \u003cem\u003e102 Minutes\u003c\/em\u003e is the epic account of ordinary men and women and includes incredible stories of bravery, courage, and overcoming unbelievable odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories include the construction manager and his colleagues who pried open the doors and saved dozens of people in the north tower; the police officer who was a few blocks away, filing his retirement papers, but grabbed his badge and sprinted to the buildings; the window washer stuck in a lift fifty floors up who used a squeegee to escape; and the secretaries who led an elderly man down eighty-nine flights of stairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChance encounters, moments of grace, a shout across an office shaped these minutes, marking the border between fear and solace, staking the boundary between life and death. Crossing a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism one person at a time, Dwyer and Flynn tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women — the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished — as they made 102 minutes count as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67703202218220,"sku":"9780099492566","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099492566-102-minutes-1.jpg?v=1791755225"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/kevin-flynn.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}