American's are in denial when it comes to facing how vulnerable our nation is to disadst4er, be it terrorist attack or act of God.  We have learned little from the cataclysms of September  11 and Hurricane Katrina.  When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time - and squandering it.  In this new book, leading security expert Stephen Flynn demands that we wake up and prepare immrediately for a safer future.

Our growing exposure to man-made and natural perils is largely rooted in our own negligence as we take for granted the infrastructure handed down to us by earlier generationes.  Once the envy of the world, this infrastructure is now crumbling, it doesn't have to be this way.  The Edge of Disaster tells us what we can do about it, as individuals and as a society.  We can - we must - construct a more resilent nation.

Flynn argues that be tackling head on the perils that lie before us, we can remain true to our most important and vital national trait, our sense of optimism about the fruture and our conviction that we can change it for the better, for ourselves - and our children.

Stephen Flynn is among the world's most widely cited experts on homeland security and trade and transportation issues.  A senior fellow with the National Security Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations since 1999, he is the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller America the Vulnerable.  Flynn lives in Connecticut.