John Renehan was born in Boston and raised in California.  He worked as an attorney for the City and State of New York, and was a field artillery officer in the Army.  He lives in Virginia with his wife and children.  The Valley is his first novel.

 

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VALLEY

 

Is The Valley a war novel, or a mystery, or what?

It's neither and both.  I tried to write a book that could be read and enjoyed entirely as a mystery-thriller, or as a character study with a particular military theme (the heavy weight of blameworthiness and shame that is carried by all military leaders, and which breaks some), or as an allegorical novel whose overt mystery structure is built around a historical theme (the history of Westerners in Afghanistan).