John Ratti

Honor Bound John Ratti First edition

Honor Bound is a provocative novel that sweeps across the landscapes of contemporary mainstream, military and political thriller fiction. Ultimately an inquiry into a price paid for the undiscovered self, Honor Bound emphasizes the moral challenges of living in this modern world, often exploring how we regard others, the molding of public perception and affectations of institutionalized authority in a time when important things are difficult, even dangerous to know. Ranging from the Mideast to small town America and inside the White House, Honor Bound casts light on subjects and places vital to but little understood by many Americans, ending with an astonishing prediction about out future. With security and energy issues now forefront in American consciousness, Honor Bound focuses on what many believe to the be the country's most important foreign bond - its discreetly intimate relationship with political life-partner Saudi Arabia, where it is said that over one-quarter of the world's oil reserves sit below desert sand, controlled by a small monarchy named the House of Saud that rules over a modest population surrounded by more militant Arab nations several times its size in an increasingly dangerous part of the world. If you want to know shocking truths about the perils of America's war of terrorism, the politics of energy, the cost of patriotism and the dangers in America's entangling alliances, you need to read Honor Bound and experience the story of US Army Captain Kasey Lawrence as she learns the profound terms of heroism in our age.