David Raterman

David Raterman is the author of The River Panj, an emergency relief thriller set in Afghanistan, ex-Soviet Tajikistan and the United States. Since 2005 he has written books for National Geographic and Knopf/Random House and is a features correspondent for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Raterman worked two years for CARE in Tajikistan along the Afghanistan border and seven months in a clinic that made artificial limbs for soldiers and war victims in Armenia. Visit David at: www.DavidRaterman.com