Richard ​“Rick” Rosen­thal spent 30 award-win­ning years as a radio and tele­vi­sion news anchor­man, most of that time on the air in Chica­go. In 1995 he left broad­cast­ing to become a full-time media rela­tions con­sul­tant and train­er. Rick is an hon­ors grad­u­ate from Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty. He served as an Army infor­ma­tion offi­cer at the Pen­ta­gon. This is his first novel.