Only By Blood

by Gary Klein

A fast-paced thriller and a memorable story about saving your home, your family, your friends...yourself. Ray Proctor had been on top of the world, but a rocket attack in Afghanistan put an end to that, along with the lives of his friends. Burnt out, broke and alone, he heads back to the small Midwestern town where he grew up, where he finds the town has been overrun by corruption. Will Ray's only way out be "Only By Blood"? Discover the surprising conclusion.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Gary Klein, Ph.D., is known for the cognitive models, such as the Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model, the Data/Frame model of sensemaking, the Management By Discovery model of planning in complex settings, and the Triple Path model of insight, the methods he developed, including techniques for Cognitive Task Analysis, the PreMortem method of risk assessment, and the ShadowBox training approach, and the movement he helped to found in 1989 — Naturalistic Decision Making. The company he started in 1978, Klein Associates, grew to 37 employees by the time he sold it in 2005. He formed his new company, ShadowBox LLC, in 2014 and is the author of five books.

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