Used. Hardcover. Dave Eggers recounts the harrowing true tale of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a New Orleans contractor who heroically paddled through the post-Katrina floodwaters to rescue stranded souls, only to find himself swept up in a Kafkaesque nightmare of paranoia and armed detention. This riveting, remarkably compassionate read exposes how quickly civil liberties can wash away when a city collapses under the twin tides of natural disaster and state-sponsored panic. It is a brilliant, deeply unsettling look at one family caught in the crosscurrents of America's worst policy failures, leaving you gripping the pages to see how a good Samaritan survives a system gone completely rogue.