Description: A rollicking exploration of why the stuff we use (mostly) works--and a celebration of the mad genius of the engineers who ensure it does.
Brief description: Alex Davies is a senior editor at Amazon and the author of Driven. He was formerly an editor at Wired, where he launched the transportation section in 2016. He lives in Beacon, New York.
Review Quotes: Only a writer as good as Alex Davies could take a litany of failure--a chronicle of broken things--and turn it into a celebration of human ingenuity. Things fall apart, but in Kobuk the Destroyer, Davies tells the story of the people who pick up the pieces, subject them to rigorous testing, and rebuild the world.--Adam Rogers, author of Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern