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Ron Childress

Biography

Ron Childress

Ron Childress started his work life in boatyards up and down the New England coast, but at 19, he enrolled in community college and went on to earn his BA, MA, and PhD in literature. Childress worked for several years as a communications manager for a professional association near Washington, DC before joining his wife in her tech marketing agency. In 2000, he left the business to pursue fiction writing full time. AND WEST IS WEST, winner of the 2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, is his first novel.

Ron Childress

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by Ron Childress - Fiction

Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is tasked with launching a missile against a suspected terrorist halfway across the world. Ethan, a young Wall Street quant, is involved in a more bloodless connection to war when he develops an algorithm that enables his company’s clients to profit by exploiting the international financial instability caused by exactly this kind of antiterrorist strike. These two are only minor players, but their actions have global implications that tear lives apart --- including their own.