Ricochet: Guns, Greed, and the American Way of Violence

Name: Ricochet: Guns, Greed, and the American Way of Violence
Brand: Atria/One Signal Publishers
SKU: 9781668063064
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"Trenchant and timely study ... presents an informed and persuasive case for the brutal absurdity of American gun culture....A meticulously researched, illuminating exploration of American gun violence."
--Kirkus Reviews

Biographical Note:
Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter, author and editor. As a member of the investigations unit at The New York Times, he shared Pulitzer Prizes in 2022 for reporting on the hidden financial incentives behind police traffic stops, and in 2017 for reporting on covert Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election.

Review Quotes:
"Mike McIntire has written a killer expose revealing the untold greed, grift and political games played by America's seemingly unstoppable gun industry. McIntire is both a superb reporter and storyteller, and Ricochet is a must read for anyone wondering why a country in which presidents and school children have been felled by assassins' bullets, cannot find a reasonable way to protect both gun rights and its citizens."
--Jane Mayer, bestselling author of DARK MONEY

"McIntire, one of our best reporters, delivers a powerful look at the collective psychosis that makes our country gun crazy. Ricochet asks why we live like this -- and delivers answers. An essential book for understanding why gun violence is as American as apple pie."
--Tim Weiner, bestselling author of LEGACY OF ASHES

"Precise, scrupulously reported, and written with moral seriousness, Ricochet is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how a nation arrived at a place where guns are the leading cause of death of children and teenagers -- and what, if anything, might change that."
--Greg Grandin, author of THE END OF THE MYTH

Publisher Marketing:
Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mike McIntire delivers the definitive story of the forces that shape gun culture and the American way of violence.

Not too long ago, you could still envision a future for America not marked by gun idolatry, blood-stained classrooms, and empty offers of thoughts and prayers. Yet a witches' brew of politics, money, and ideology has warped gun culture in the United States, hijacking the Second Amendment and allowing fear and insecurity to drive the reckless marketing of powerful weapons. How did our country come to have more guns than people and become one in which just pulling into the wrong driveway can get you shot?

In Ricochet, Mike McIntire provides a bold new road map for understanding our fraught relationship with guns and violence in America. McIntire crafts a gripping narrative of how the imperatives of war, slavery, crime, commerce and politics intertwined with the development of ever-more lethal firearms, leaving the country divided and traumatized. He shares explosive new revelations about the NRA's accumulation of power and turn to radicalism; Wall Street's efforts to turbocharge the market for assault weapons and online gun sales; the gun lobby's secretive campaign to change public attitudes by indoctrinating children; and how dark money, questionable scholarship, and front groups are being used to knock down gun laws. At once a cautionary tale of unfettered liberty, swagger and free markets contributing to our violent undoing, Ricochet also delivers a prescription for how we might yet save ourselves.

A work of deep, revelatory investigative reporting, powerful storytelling, and incisive analysis, Ricochet is in essence a story about America, an excavation of the cultural and political dynamics that are at the root of our contemporary crises.

Review Citations:

Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2026 (EAN 9781668063064, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:McIntire, Mike
Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter, author, and editor. As a member of the investigations unit at The New York Times, he shared Pulitzer Prizes in 2022 for reporting on the hidden financial incentives behind police traffic stops, and in 2017 for reporting on covert Russian interference in the US presidential election.