The Mission Bay Book Club will be discussing Rachel Maddow's Blowout - a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry.

With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances.