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SUMMARY:Author Event: Tom Ricks\, 'We Can't Save You'
DESCRIPTION:The Blue Hill Public Library and Blue Hill Books are 
 cosponsoring an author event with Tom Ricks for the release of his latest 
 novel We Can't Save You on Thursday\, July 31 at 7PM. in the library's 
 Howard Room.\n\nWhen 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. Tapia soon finds himself torn. He wants to do right 
 by Soco and the protestors\, but his bosses at the Bureau are eager to 
 please a president itching to crack down on them. Growing increasingly 
 sympathetic to the protestors and their cause\, he tells them about a 
 possible refuge—a secret CIA base hidden away in the depths of the Maine 
 woods on the Canadian border. Enraged by the protestors' actions\, the 
 White House sends a U.S. Army unit to track down the protestors on their 
 stealth march through the evergreen forests. Meanwhile\, Tapia’s bosses\, 
 vexed and embarrassed\, fire him and threaten arrest. Undaunted\, Tapia 
 snowmobiles through the wilderness on a wintry night to warn the Indian 
 protestors of the impending attack.\n\nThomas E. Ricks is a writer and the 
 military history columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Ricks 
 covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. 
 Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal\, 
 where he was a reporter for 17 years. He reported on U.S. military 
 activities in Somalia\, Haiti\, Korea\, Bosnia\, Kosovo\, Macedonia\, 
 Kuwait\, Turkey\, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was part of a Wall Street 
 Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2000 for 
 a series of articles on how the U.S. military might change to meet the new 
 demands of the 21st century. He is the author of nine books.\n\nThis 
 program is free and open to all\, and will be held in the library's Howard 
 Room. Blue Hill Books will be onsite with copies of the books available for 
 purchase. For more information\, please email Assistant Director Kayleigh 
 Thomas at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net or call the library at 374-5515.
LOCATION:Howard Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Olivia Zubrowski":MAILTO:oliviaz@bhpl.net
CATEGORIES:Author Event
CONTACT;CN="Olivia Zubrowski":MAILTO:oliviaz@bhpl.net
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