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Ranger games : a story of soldiers, family and an inexplicable crime / Ben Blum.

Blum, Ben, 1981- (author.).

Summary:

"Ben Blum's first cousin Alex committed armed robbery. At first, Alex insisted he thought the robbery was just another exercise in the famously daunting Ranger training program. His attorney presented a case based on the theory that the Ranger indoctrination mirrored that of a cult. Intricate, heartrending and morally urgent, Ben's enormous compassion for his cousin deepens and complicates his search for the answers to profound questions of guilt and innocence, conformity and free will, truth and lies, right and wrong, and how far crisis can stretch the bonds of family."--Provided by the publisher.
Intricate, heart-rending, and morally urgent, RANGER GAMES is a crime story like no other. Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult selection program, become a U. S. Army Ranger, and fight terrorists for his country. In the first hours of his final leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex was supposed to fly home to see his family and beloved girlfriend. Instead, he got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, drove to a local bank in Tacoma, and committed armed robbery. . . Why?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385681421 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: x, 412 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Bond Street Books, 2017.
Subject: Blum, Alex, 1987-
United States. Army. Ranger Regiment, 75th.
Bank robberies > Washington (State) > Case studies.
Soldiers > United States > Case studies.
Criminals > United States > Case studies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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