Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum

12/09/2017 16h 4min
Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime by Ben Blum

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Title: Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
Author: Ben Blum
Narrator: Johnathan McClain
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 16 hours 4 minutes
Release date: September 12, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
'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.

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