Ross Ritchell

ROSS RITCHELL

Thursday, February 12

7 pm at The Book Stall

We welcome local author Ross Ritchell, a former Army Ranger and soldier in a United States Special Operations Command direct-action team, for a talk about his debut novel, The Knife, just out this week. It is the story of a U.S. Special Forces unit operating in what its characters call "Afghanipakiraqistan," and it takes readers deep beneath the testosterone-laced patter into the lonelier, more ambivalent world of military life in the Middle East. 

Wrote critic Carol Memmott in a recent Chicago Tribune review of the book: "In 2014, the short stories in Phil Klay's Redeployment were heralded as some of the most authentic wartime writing in our ever-changing post-9/11 world. In 2015, The Knife, another literary masterpiece, deserves the same praise for its portrayal of valor and the horrors of war." Click here for the full review in the Tribune's "Printers Row Journal."