A gripping historical account, Five Past Midnight in Bhopal chronicles the 1984 Bhopal disaster, one of the world’s deadliest industrial tragedies. Lapierre and Moro spent years researching the event, interviewing survivors and officials to reconstruct the catastrophic gas leak from Union Carbide’s pesticide plant. The book explores the lives affected, the corporate negligence, and the aftermath of the disaster that claimed thousands of lives.