Tom Ricks' 'We Can't Save You' - Book Launch Moderated by Rob Caldwell

Thomas E. Ricks, author of five New York Times bestsellers, combines his deep knowledge of Maine with his years of experience covering U.S. military operations to craft a powerful tale of politics and mayhem in We Can’t Save You, a riveting new crime novel and the second in his acclaimed Ryan Tapia series. Ricks is a finalist for the from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

When a group of young Native Americans launches a series of protests against climate change and its effects on the waters and woods of Maine, veteran FBI agent Ryan Tapia is assigned to monitor the movement. The protestors, who become determined to split away from American society, are led by “Peeled Paul” Soco, a Malpense hermit who played a key role in one of Tapia's previous investigations. When the marchers begin making camps on the lawns of luxurious summer mansions along the Maine coast, they win national media attention—and the wrath of a reactionary president.

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Thursday, June 12 at 6:00 PM (doors 5:30 PM), approximately 60-minutes, folllowed by a Q&A and book signing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thomas E. Ricks is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including the #1bestseller 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.

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER

Rob Caldwell has worked as an anchor and reporter for NEWS CENTER Maine without interruption for 42 years. He has covered stories large and small, from the Pope’s visit to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to a cat stranded on an ice floe in the Kenduskeag Stream. Over the years he has interviewed thousands of people, among them Mr. T, Mrs. Fields, and Miss America, presidents and puppeteers, lawyers and lobstermen, elephant caretakers and Elvis impersonators. He anchored the noon news for 14 years and the 5:30 news for 25 years. Since 2003 he has co-anchored and reported for the news magazine “207.” He and his wife Emily live in Portland.

PARKING & TRANSPORTATION

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