A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable novelistic
account.-Jennifer Senior New York Times Intricate heartrending 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. He poured
everything into achieving his dream. 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... The question that haunted the entire Blum family was: Why? Why would
he ruin his life in such a spectacularly foolish way? At first Alex insisted he thought the
robbery was just another exercise in the famously daunting Ranger program. His attorney
presented a case based on the theory that the Ranger indoctrination mirrored that of a cult. In
the midst of his own personal crisis and in the hopes of helping both Alex and his splintering
family cope Ben Blum Alex's first cousin delved into these mysteries growing closer to Alex
in the process. As he probed further Ben began to question not only Alex but the influence of
his superior Luke Elliot Sommer the man who planned the robbery. A charismatic combat veteran
Sommer's manipulative tendencies combined with a magnetic personality pulled Ben into a
relationship that put his loyalties to the test.
