UPCOMING EVENTS

Events include a speaking appearance in Vermont; a guest speaking gig on a National Geo Mekong River expedition in February 2017; a speaking appearance in Texas next April, and a new anniversary edition of A Rumor of War. Find out more…

SOME RISE BY SIN

My new novel, Some Rise By Sin (written under the working title of Deliver Us From Evil), was completed in July, and is scheduled for a May 2, 2017, publication by Henry Holt & Co. Here’s an early peek at the story.

DEAD TREES

My wife, Leslie Ware, has just published Dead Trees, a short, funny novel that’s a sendup of office politics at a fictional magazine and a bittersweet elegy for print journalism. Think of it as a mashup of Dilbert, The Devil Wears Prada, and Kingsley...

ACTS OF FAITH

Gail Egan, U.K. producer of 20 films, including John LeCarre’s THE CONSTANT GARDNER, and independent producer Tracy Bing, have optioned the film rights to ACTS OF FAITH, which I consider my best novel. If it is ever brought to the screen — and believe me...

Graybeard Warrior-Poets

“I wanted to create a virtual tour of duty,” said @PhilipCaputo as he kicks of audience Q&A. #BakerVietnam50 “Nothing can diminish the rightness of what you tried to do,” @PhilipCaputo reads from friend’s eulogy. #BakerVietnam50...

CANCER AND THE COSMOS

Cancer refers to the disease, not the constellation, yet the disease is linked to the cosmos in my own mind. A little more than a year ago, I underwent surgery for bladder cancer at White Plains hospital in White Plains, N.Y. A superficial but high-grade tumor roughly...

Horn of Africa film option

I signed today, April 11, 2015, a film option with Stephen Altman and David Levy for my first novel, Horn of Africa., published in 1980. This novel has a long history in Hollywood (which I use as a generic term for the movie industry). It was optioned by Michael...

TUCSON EVENT II

Will be speaking on a panel at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend, and also appearing with other writers at an iconic Tucson venue, The Mountain Oyster Club. Link to interview with me by the University of Arizona...