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Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: Horwitz s dogged reporting combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative . He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience (PEN Award Citation). \u003cbr\u003eSix years in the making, War of the Whales is the gripping detective tale (Publishers Weekly) of a crusading attorney, Joel Reynolds, who stumbles on one of the US Navy s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. 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