The Fire Line is the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew trained to combat wildfires in the wildlands of the American West, crisscrossing the country wherever the fires take them. A stirring portrait of a band of brothers at work, at play, and at home, until a fire burning in their own backyards leads to a national tragedy.

With impeccable research that draws upon more than a hundred hours of interviews with the firefighters' families, colleagues, and state and federal officials, New York Times Phoenix Bureau Chief Fernanda Santos has written a riveting, pulse-pounding narrative of an unthinkable disaster, a remarkable group of men, and the raging wildfires that threaten our country's treasured wilderness.