Patrick Creed and Rick Newman were interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Patrick Creed and Rick Newman are the authors of Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11, a detailed account of the firefighters, emergency personnel and others who responded on September 11 to the airline crash at the Pentagon.



• Creed is an amateur historian with a history degree from James Madison University, as well as a volunteer firefighter and U.S. Army Reserve Officer. He recently returned from a tour in Iraq as a civil affairs officer. Creed lives in Pennsylvania where he volunteers with two firefighting companies.



• Newman is an award-winning journalist and staff writer for U.S. News and World Report. He has also written for The Washington Post and many other publications. He is the co-author of Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Newman lives in New York.



• The Washington Post called the book "A monumental reporting job.... Creed and Newman faced a daunting challenge, rose to the occasion and rescued a piece of history from the ashes."
  
  Publisher's Weekly wrote: “This gripping account of national tragedy and personal heroism gives readers a you-are-there look at the disaster that claimed 189, and a real appreciation for the work that kept it from claiming more."

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