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Kevin Sites is an award-winning journalist and author. He has worked as a reporter for more than thirty years, half of that covering war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo News, and Vice News. He was a 2010 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University and a 2012 Dart Fellow in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. For a decade he lived and taught in Hong Kong as an associate professor of practice in journalism at the University of Hong Kong. He's the author of three books on war, In the Hot Zone, The Things They Cannot Say, and Swimming with Warlords. The Ocean Above Me is his first novel. He lives in Oregon.
""The Ocean Above Me is an intense and powerful novel about losing one's way and then finding it again in the unlikeliest of places. I found it moving, thought-provoking and gripping in equal measure."" -- Ian McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of The North Water ""An unforgettable story of guilt and survival that is also a nail-biting thriller....Sites has crafted a profound exploration of a war correspondent's dark secret and the toll that holding onto it has taken in his life. The plot is ingenious and the hero's path to redemption is both stirring and unique."" -- Peter Maass, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War ""Absolutely riveting. Sites grabs you by the throat and pulls you under in chapter one and you won't resurface until long after this story ends. A profound, heart-pounding journey to the edge of life and death, filled with unique characters who leap off the page. I can't stop thinking about it."" -- Richard Murphy, author of Confessions of a Contractor ""Kevin Sites has produced a richly suspenseful page-turner filled with believable characters and a plot that keeps you hanging on until the very end. The submerged story-line speaks gracefully to the lingering trauma and scars from wars long forgotten except by those who were there. Only an accomplished war correspondent like Sites could produce a thriller so unique and genuinely authentic. Once you start reading this book, it's hard to put it down."" -- Keith B. Richburg, author of Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa ""Longtime war journalist Kevin Sites crafts an edge-of-your-seat story that is part 'MacGyver' and part 'Perfect Storm' with well-developed and introspective characters. The Ocean Above Me mines the survival skills Sites honed in real-life war zones with a gripping plot and prose that hums with humanity."" -- Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus ""Sites' first work of fiction is more terrifying and claustrophobic than his years of reporting from wars. Set in a small space the novel ranges far and wide in the mind of the protagonist. A read in one sitting journey that you will not put down."" -- Robert Young Pelton, author of The World's Most Dangerous Places and Licensed to Kill ""Kevin Sites's long career in journalism taught him to listen closely to cries and whispers. He has crafted an epic tale of a man whose life turns inward. Out of suffering emerges the strongest soul. This story twists and turns so fast it's like trying to read a book with a four-year-old flipping the pages. You won't put it down until it's done."" -- Bob Dotson, New York Times bestselling author of Make it Memorable ""Propulsive. . . . Sites intersperses Landon's underwater struggle with the journalist's articles and his interactions with the crew in the days leading up to the storm. These . . . make for engaging character portraits. . . . Landon's commitment to finding a way to the surface will keep readers turning the pages. "" -- Publishers Weekly ""The novel dresses an action thriller's survival story in literary filigree . . . the suspense is sustained to the end."" -- Kirkus Reviews
