Description:
The tragic story of 1967's largest cave search in history, where three Hannibal boys goes missing in the local caves near the Mississippi. Nonfiction at its best.
Brief description: John Wingate is a Minnesota-based author, writer, and communications consultant. A former consumer reporter for KSTP-TV, he spent twenty years as a broadcast journalist in Illinois and Minnesota, a career path that captured his interest at age thirteen during the 1967 cave search for the lost boys of Hannibal. He has garnered nearly twenty awards for writing and reporting excellence, including three national TELLY Awards for screenwriting and video production. John was born in Hannibal, Missouri where he spent his early childhood years. Follow him on Facebook (AuthorJohnWingate) and Twitter (@Wingate_Author).
Review Quotes:
"I grew up a few miles from where the Lost Boys of Hannibal disappeared. But I had no inkling of the epic dimensions their story held until I opened the pages of John Wingate's spellbinding book."
-Ron Powers, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
"This book is hard to read but harder to put down. Mr. Wingate writes with a journalist's insight and clarity, a scientist's curiosity, a father's tender heart and a true friend's compassion (the people involved were his friends and neighbors). This true story is amazing, fascinating and heartbreaking. Mr. Wingate honors the boys and all who tried to help them with his respectful analysis of the events. This is a true untold story which deserves to be known and understood."
-Mary Beth Maas, Omaha reviewer
"Lost Boys of Hannibal takes a caver's bright headlamp to the boys' story, illuminating dark corners and mazy passages of what happened as thoroughly as the people who spent weeks crawling beneath South Hannibal in 1967. Authoritatively researched. What a story this is! Recommended."
-Jo Schaper, speleo historian