Patrick Creed and Rick Newman
Patrick Creed and Rick Newman were interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay.
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."