Blowing It Up

When we think of explosions, the fi rst thing that generally comes to mind is a big, violent, cataclysmic, and usually fi ery event like a bomb exploding. But explosions truly come in all shapes and sizes, and it often surprised people what constituted an explosion in my fi rst book. And it may surprise them in this book too, for that matter. So fi rst, let’s look at what I consider to be a real explosion, and then we’ll take it from there.