About the Author

Philip Caputo worked for nine years for the Chicago Tribune and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraud in Chicago. He is the author of seven other works of fiction and two memoirs, including A Rumor of War, about his service in Vietnam, and four works of nonfiction. He divides his time between Connecticut and Arizona.

Reviews

“An old-fashioned novel, crisply written.”–Time

“[Caputo’s] descriptions of combat photographers and war correspondents are right on the money.”–The New York Times Book Review