Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including the number one bestseller Fiasco, a history of the beginning of the Iraq War. As a reporter at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, he was a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.  He worked in the Maine woods in his youth and trapped lobsters when living on an island in Penobscot Bay. He now divides his time between Texas and Maine. His other Ryan Tapia novels, Everyone Knows But You and the forthcoming Big Money, Small Town, are also available from Pegasus Books.