We Can't Save You

“Very much enjoyed this book! I particularly enjoyed Ricks’s take, sensitivity and style. Ryan Tapia is a great, well rounded and fascinating character. Loved it.” – Adrian McKinty, New York Times bestselling author of The Chain and The Island
“Ryan looks into a bizarre murder case: a corpse has been dumped in the Gulf of Maine with a yellow wig nailed to its skull. Agents suspect the crime’s connected to a Native American–led climate change protest movement, which has elicited a hostile response from the U.S. president. As Ryan digs deeper into the murder, he grows increasingly sympathetic to the protestors’ cause, leading him to a crisis of conscience as the government tries to quash the movement. Ricks nimbly weaves together elements of political thriller, whodunit, and domestic drama.” * Publishers Weekly *
Praise for Everyone Knows But You:
“Celebrated journalist and military historian Ricks tries his hand at a new genre in this crime novel. It’s set in Maine, where a grieving FBI agent named Ryan Tapia is restarting his life. When a fisherman’s corpse shows up on federal land, Tepia is pulled into a case involving drugs, rare fish and the tensions between Maine’s White and Native American communities.” * The Washington Post *
“A Maine lobsterman’s murder launches this wily, unexpectedly affecting thriller. Ricks, who possesses a matching set of Pulitzer Prizes for reporting he did on two separate teams, for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, has come through with a thriller that’s beautifully observed throughout, with a morally nuanced denouement.” * The Portland Press-Herald *
“I’ve enjoyed many of Thomas Rick’s’ bestselling histories, and so I was not surprised but very glad to find his first mystery, set on the coast of Maine, just as riveting and beautifully written. FBI agent Ryan Tapia, alone in the Bangor office—grief struck, watchful and meticulous—heads up a marvelous cast.” * Anne Lamott, author of Dusk Night Dawn and Bird by Bird *
“The author is a first-rate military historian, and his first crime novel reflects the skills of a terrific storyteller with a keen eye for both character and plot. Thomas E. Ricks lives part-time in Maine, and his knowledge of the terrain and people of that hauntingly beautiful state helps make for a heartfelt thriller.” * Air Mail *
“Ryan looks into a bizarre murder case: a corpse has been dumped in the Gulf of Maine with a yellow wig nailed to its skull. Agents suspect the crime’s connected to a Native American–led climate change protest movement, which has elicited a hostile response from the U.S. president. As Ryan digs deeper into the murder, he grows increasingly sympathetic to the protestors’ cause, leading him to a crisis of conscience as the government tries to quash the movement. Ricks nimbly weaves together elements of political thriller, whodunit, and domestic drama.” * Publishers Weekly *

Thomas E. Ricks is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including the number one bestseller 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. His other Ryan Tapia novels, Everyone Knows But You and the forthcoming Big Money, Small Town, are also available from Pegasus Books.

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