Featuring neverbeforereported details and exclusive interviews with the boys and their coach the inspiring true story of how twelve members of the Wild Boar Academy Football Club and their coach survived nine days in a labyrinthine cave in Northern Thailand and of the incredible men and women who pulled off one of the greatest rescues of all timeFor nine days twelve young soccer players and their coach were confined in the dark by rising waters in the caverns of Tham Luang in Chang Rai Thailand With no food or drinking water except the condensation found on the cave walls their survival seemed unlikely Yet against the odds a team of determined divers traversed monsoon floodwaters and narrow passageways to find Coach Ek a stateless orphan devoted to Buddhism and his young players alive and hopeful Liam Cochrane spent more than two weeks on the scene and was stationed outside of the cave entrance in daily contact with divers and other key members of the rescue team reporting the story